On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 6:14 PM, Keith Russell <
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> Jerry Seinfeld, in a recent interview, claims that chairs and forks are
> funny, but salt shakers are not (see extract below). He wouldn't seem to
> have heard or read Don Norman talk about salt and pepper shakers. Maybe
> there is a special designer's Don Norman episode of Seinfeld waiting to be
> written? I can certainly imagine a scene in which the nothing being debated
> is the nothing of mixing up the salt and pepper shakers. Could be an
> interesting tutorial activity?
>
"I find the fork very funny," he says.
If he finds the fork funny, what does he think of sporks? Or training
chopsticks?
Eating utensils are indeed quite baroque. My favorite utensils are hands.
Don
Don Norman
Nielsen Norman Group, IDEO Fellow
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Book: "Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded<http://amzn.to/ZOMyys>"
(DOET2).
Course: Udacity On-Line course based on
DOET2<https://www.udacity.com/course/design101>
(free).
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