书籍介绍
The first book to tell the story of the ways in which design is reshaping life in the twenty-first century
User Friendly opens with two very different stories. In 1979, a series of failures leads to the catastrophic accident at Three Mile Island; one of the most critical of these failures is a design flawa key indicator in the plants control room is hidden from the operators sight line. In 2018, a giant, futuristic Apple campus is built on the back of sales of the iPhone, the most user-friendly device ever made. The two stories are part of one larger narrativethe story of the surprisingly recent innovation of putting users at the center of design.
In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant unpack the ways in which the world has beenand continues to beremade according to the principles of a relatively obscure discipline: user experience design. Its spread is intertwined with the sweeping changes of the last century, from womens rights to the Great Depression and World War II and the rise of the digital era. Its ideals have shaped the world around us, from washing machines to self-driving cars to social media.
Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first timeand youll never interact with technology the same way again.
AI导读
核心看点
- 以《了不起的盖茨比》为例，串联多种文论
- 涵盖精神分析、女性主义、解构等十大流派
- 手把手教文本分析，理论落地实操性强
适合谁读
- 英语专业高年级本科生及研究生
- 文学批评理论初学者与爱好者
- 需要撰写期末论文或学术作业的学生
读前提醒
- 本书侧重理论应用，非纯理论推导
- 部分案例如酷儿批评略显牵强，需辩证看
- 建议结合原著阅读，效果更佳
读者共识
- 公认最友好、最清晰的文论入门书
- 语言平实，拒绝故作高深，易读懂
- 操作性极强，是补基础的神书
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "如果把这个定义（注：性行为）应用到异性恋，那又会怎样？如果这样的话，那就意味着，一位处女，即便她自认为是异性恋，但是，如果她没有与男性交媾，她就没有资格以异性恋自居。这样看来，一个人的性取向必须依据这个人的性欲望来界定。"
- "亲密恐惧症——这是一种沉潜已久而且非常强烈的感觉，我们总觉得与他人情感亲密将会给自己带来严重伤害或毁灭，只有一直与他人保持情感距离才有情感的安全。（又与死亡本能、死亡恐惧相关） 离弃恐惧症——坚信朋友或爱人将要抛弃自己（实质性抛弃）或者是不关心自己（情感抛弃）。 背叛恐惧——没完没了地感觉朋友或爱人不可信任，例如，难保他们没有对自己撒谎，难保他们没有在自己背后说自己的坏话，或在谈恋爱的时候，感觉对方移情别恋欺骗自己。 自卑——认为自己不如他人，从而得不到别人的关心、爱慕或生我没有的其他回报。事实上，我们经常认为，自己应受生活的某种惩罚。 自我的不安全感或不稳定感——缺乏自信，对自己认识不足。这"
- "事实上，种族概念最早出现在博物学领域，是为了便于指称处于不同地理方位的人群，它无意把人类划分为生理特征不同的群体。然而，到了十九世纪，科学家将这些群体固定在一成不恋的类型当中，他们还宣称，与体貌差异相对应的是建立在生物学基础上的文化等级制。他们断言，人类属于不同的种族，有些种族——特别是白人——优于其他种族。"
- "在贝尔（Bell Jr. Derrick A.）看来，“紧盯着战利品”不是指种族平等这个战利品，因为如果一直去期待一件已经赢来但永远也不会真正到手的战利品，只会令人“沮丧和泄气”。具有讽刺意味的是，种族平等这种信念——种族平等这种东西，现在没有，过去没有实现，将来也不会出现——往往会让那些需要继续战斗的人们变得情绪冷漠或道德瘫痪。贝尔心中的战利品是，在直接面对种族主义现实以及与各种形式的种族主义作斗争的过程中，强化人性和取得道义上的“胜利”，绝不幻想白人的权力结构会被彻底拆除。"
- "Thus, there is no history, in the traditional sense of the term. There are only representations of history."
- "In the new historical examples, the focus is on how the literary text itself functions as a historical discourse interacting with other historical discourses: those circulating at the time and place in which the text is set, at the time the text was published, or at later points in the history of th"
- "The answer, at least in part, is that the American dream, much like the state lotteries or the big-bucks sweepstakes that are its latest incarnation, opens the possibility that anyone can win, and ,like gambling addicts, we cling to that posibility."
- "rendering French feminism vulnerable to ridicule and dismissal, which is rather ironic given that the work of many leading American theorists is often rather abstract."
作者简介
本书英文原著作者罗伊丝·泰森（Lois Tyson)是伟谷州立大学英文系教授，主讲当代文学理论。本书译者赵国新为北京外国语大学外国文学研究所研究员，博士生导师。
用户评论
[有声书] 还蛮大开眼界的一本！或许作为user，觉得对user friendly的概念理解透彻，但这本书从多角度来讲解这个概念，每个章节名就能一窥涵盖面之广（比如trust、error、metaphor、personalization等）。具体的干货在mental model的建立和设计上与之符合度、灵活恰当应用metaphor、feedback的重要性，听下来也能深刻体会到现实生活中的设计理念如何扩展到网络和移动终端，而近年网络和移动终端的发展又如何反过来影响现实生活里的设计思路。别的不说，在最常用的统计软件上，我觉得RStudio相较于R就真是非常符合各种user friendly的重点。这么一想，似乎对教学生统计编程，以及今后写R包的feedback，也有了些新的体会和理解 :)
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