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Dr. Ben discusses Don Norman's _Design of Everyday Things_ for Design and Gamemastering.(Episode #152). #dnd #pathfinder #ttrpg #wfrp

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00:00 Intro
01:13 Design is Communication
04:36 Affordances
10:22 Signifiers
15:27 Feedback
19:49 The Two Gulfs
23:26 Mapping
28:17 Constraints
30:32 Designing for Error
32:14 Final Thoughts
33:20 Thoughts?
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Norman, Donald A. The Design of Everyday Things. Revised and Expanded ed., Basic Books / MIT Press edition listings, 2013. Core concepts summarized in available excerpts.
Nielsen Norman Group. “The Two UX Gulfs: Evaluation and Execution.” 2018.
Interaction Design Foundation. “Gulf of Evaluation and Gulf of Execution.”


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