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Title: Things That Make Us Smart
Author: Donald A. Norman
Summary: In Normand's third book, he reiterates most of the points in his earlier novels, while expanding on a few new ones. The central theme of the novel is how technology needs to be more human-centric. Technology should conform to the person using it, not the other way around.
He expands into discussion on specific example, like externalized artifacts and the various forms of cognition, and different types of learning. He provided several examples of each topic, and explained it clearly in an easy to understand way.
Discussion: Normand's third book does tread new ground, but he still has his habit of over-reiterating certain topics. Still, the examples shown in this book were much clearer then some of his other books, and I felt I learned more from this particular book than I did the other two.
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