The Psychology of Everyday Things¶
Norman, D. A. (1988). The Psychology of Everyday Things. Basic Books.
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Mechanisms¶
- Destination Preview Card
- By letting the agent evaluate an end-state before acting, the card narrows what Don Norman calls the gulf of evaluation, the distance between what a system offers and what the user can tell about it from the outside
This sourceDefines the gulf of evaluation as the gap between a system's externally represented state and the user's ability to perceive, interpret, and evaluate that state.
- By letting the agent evaluate an end-state before acting, the card narrows what Don Norman calls the gulf of evaluation, the distance between what a system offers and what the user can tell about it from the outside
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- It directly attacks Norman's gulf of evaluation — the distance between the system's actual state and the user's ability to perceive it
This sourceDefines the gulf of evaluation as the difficulty of interpreting a system’s state and judging whether it meets the user’s expectations.
- It directly attacks Norman's gulf of evaluation — the distance between the system's actual state and the user's ability to perceive it
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