Template:Did you know nominations/The Design of Everyday Things

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The result was: promoted by Harrison49 (talk) 18:50, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

The Design of Everyday Things

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*... that Donald Norman's 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things devoted an entire chapter to the design of door handles? Created/expanded by Pnm (talk). Self nom at 14:33, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Reviewed Hedysarum alpinum. --Pnm (talk) 15:23, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Date, size and all other issues check out. Good to go! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk to me} 00:02, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Although the cited source asserts this, the hook fact is not accurate. The book discusses door handles at some length, returning to them repeatedly, but there is no chapter devoted primarily to door handles. That just isn't the way the book is organized. One might ask "Did you know that Donald Norman's 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things makes such a memorable impression about door handles that one might think it was an entire chapter?" But that would not be a very encyclopedic point of view. ~ Ningauble (talk) 19:40, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
That's funny, I just finished reading the book last night and you're right – no such chapter. Thanks. I'll look for something else. --Pnm (talk) 19:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)

Replacement hook: *... that Donald Norman rewrote his 1988 book The Design of Everyday Things after some industrial designers felt affronted by an earlier draft?

appr alt, barely 1500 char prose but qualifies. PumpkinSky talk 14:04, 10 December 2011 (UTC)