Inmates Are Running the Asylum, The: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper (Paperback, 2004)

loveourprices2 (119295)
95.6% positive Feedback
Price:
£22.93
Free postage
Estimated delivery Mon, 1 Sep
Returns:
60 days return. Buyer pays for return postage. If you use an eBay delivery label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Condition:
New
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum. What Do You Get When You Cross a Computer with an Airplane?. What Do You Get When You Cross a Computer with an Alarm Clock?. What Do You Get When You Cross a Computer with a Car?.

About this product

Product Information

Imagine, at a terrifyingly aggressive rate, everything you regularly use is being equipped with computer technology. Think about your phone, cameras, cars-everything-being automated and programmed by people who in their rush to accept the many benefits of the silicon chip, have abdicated their responsibility to make these products easy to use. The Inmates Are Running the Asylum argues that the business executives who make the decisions to develop these products are not the ones in control of the technology used to create them. Insightful and entertaining, The Inmates Are Running the Asylum uses the author's experiences in corporate America to illustrate how talented people continuously design bad software-based products and why we need technology to work the way average people think. Somewhere out there is a happy medium that makes these types of products both user and bottom-line friendly; this book discusses why we need to quickly find that medium.

Product Identifiers

PublisherPearson Education (Us)
ISBN-139780672326141
eBay Product ID (ePID)91452434

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameInmates Are Running the Asylum, The: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Publication Year2004
SubjectSocial Sciences, Computer Science
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlan Cooper
FormatPaperback

Dimensions

Item Height230 mm
Item Weight406 g
Item Width155 mm

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorAlan Cooper

All listings for this product

Buy it now
Any condition
New
Pre-owned
No ratings or reviews yet
Be the first to write a review