The Inmates Are Running the Asylum

Cooper, A. (1999). The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Sams Publishing.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1999

Link

https://archive.org/details/inmatesarerunnin0000coop

Cited from

human_computer_interaction

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Primes

• Persona
  • Human-computer interaction and product design. User personas drive interface and feature decisions; mock-ups are tested against a small persona set rather than against an abstract "everyone."

    This sourceIntroduces personas as named, concrete composite users for goal-directed interaction design and warns against designing for oneself (the 'elastic user').

Domain-specific

• Implied Reader
  • In interaction design, Alan Cooper's "personas" — introduced in The Inmates Are Running the Asylum (1998) — operationalize the same move for software

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