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Design of Every Day Things

Donald Norman

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Jason Evanish recommends it affiliate
This book changed how I look at doors; if you've ever struggled with whether to push or pull, that's bad design. This book is considered the seminal book on the subject of design of physical products and it's well deserved. If you want to change your mind to think more clearly about design, this is the book to help you quickly do it.

on jasonevanish.com · 28 Oct 2020

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.