A colleague and I have produced a minor slice of such a handbook, focusing on the specific issue of headphones: Roger Ball, Headset: A design handbook for sound and shape, Outlook publishing, 2018. It's been released today on Amazon.com.
From: Don Norman <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: a "Handbook of Science and Engineering for Designers." Was: Gibson and Affordances
Nice summary, Richard
Richard asked:
I very quietly like Oliver Twist, ask can anyone cite other examples of how
Gibson´s concepts can be used by Janice and James Designer?
I have long thought that we need a "Handbook of Science and Engineering for
Designers." A handbook that would take what is known in Science and
Engineering (and Technology)_ and translate it all into practical, applied
terms that designers could understand and use.
I've tried to some of that in my books, but even where I was successful, I
left out a lot of really important, critical stuff that could be very
useful.
Richard's plight in trying to find works on perception that are directly
applicable to design speaks to this issue.
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Richard also said:
Edmunde Burke wrote that every subject expands indefinitely. A corollary is
that if you look closer into the details you only find more details, all
the way down. This seems to be the case with Gibson´s theories.
This concept, that what something looks like, is the same as it looks even
when magnified, is what is called a fractal. (Widely attributed to
Mandelbrot, but actually his work followed a long history of related work.)
a fractal is a shape made of parts similar to the whole (Wikipedia article
on Fractals)
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