Comments on "Design of Everyday Things"

I just finished "Design of Everyday Things" (DoET) by Donald Norman. It's about the way objects are designed and the ways they should be designed, with lots of examples. The book itself is well written and easy-to-read. In many ways, it's what I want Tufte to be. (Tufte writes books full of excellent pictures and neat examples, but I wish he'd actually get to the point, rather than having me guess at a principle, or try to figure out all the better alternatives myself. Don't get me wrong, the books are good, just not as useful as I'd like.)

As I was reading DoET, I found myself bookmarking lots of ideas as interesting/worth keeping track of. Since all you LJ-folk are somewhere between a captive audience and perfectly capable of leaving if bored, I'm going to dump said ideas here.

( Ideas from DoET, now in convenient infodump format! )