Living With Complexity

(April 8, 2011) Don Norman speaks about complexity in everyday life and how design helps us understand and cope with complexity. Norman gives many examples of complexity and design working together to create understanding for the consumer and asks, "Why do we need complexity? Because what we really want is understanding, so, it's about design."

Stanford University:
http://www.stanford.edu/

Stanford Center for Professional Development:
http://scpd.stanford.edu/

Human-Computer Interaction Seminar:
http://cs547.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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[ThaFacka]

He mixes up so many concepts. If you want to navigate through complex topics you need to talk in precise, or be it at least consistent ways.

[alauc]

Life is autopoietic, complexity is only part of it! Our education is allopoietic! We need knowledge to live love and freedom!

[maddoguk]

His comments about design education are absolutely on the nail

[CFMathematics]

Great lecture! I really enjoyed it! Thanks Stanford! :)

[SciLifestyle]

Amazing video! So interesting! Don is so funny and good lecturer!

[HigherPlanes]

I like the part about his Italian espresso maker. It reminds me that there's no such thing as real coffee in the States, with the exception of Miami where you can get some pretty good Cuban coffee. But people think that Starbucks serves "real" coffee

[HigherPlanes]

I like real apples

[mrteemumilto]

@TheLonelyLeper So you can't agree to disagree.

[mrteemumilto]

@TheLonelyLeper Are you suggesting that I don't belong into the category of people?

[mrteemumilto]

So is this like the idea that the hardest thing for a westener is to accept that other people's emotions are valid too?