{"id":353,"date":"2009-07-14T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T18:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-03-25T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T03:49:18","slug":"dozen-page-impression-design-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/14\/dozen-page-impression-design-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozen Page Impression: Design your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=vincgabl-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=0312532733\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had some time to kill today, waiting for a catalytic converter replacement, and the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312532733?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0312532733\"><cite>Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things<\/cite><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=vincgabl-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=0312532733\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> caught my eye. It&#8217;s loosely about about the value of design and how to apply <a href=\"http:\/\/whitneyhess.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/so-you-wanna-be-a-user-experience-designer-step-1-resources\/\">UX<\/a> to everyday life. I&#8217;ve only read<sup>1<\/sup> a dozen or so pages of it in a bookstore, but so far <strong>I definitely recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312532733?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0312532733\">the book<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Visually it&#8217;s is appealing (but of course it has to be!), and accessibly written.<\/p>\n<p>But what really impressed me the most, is that it gives you <em>a critical eye and a reason to ask &#8216;why?&#8217;<\/em>. And I think that&#8217;s the most important thing you can get out of a  book on UX\/design\/accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>The authors also have have <a href=\"http:\/\/design-your-life.org\/\">a website<\/a> which looks to be every bit as good as the book.<\/p>\n<p><small><br \/>\n<sup>1<\/sup>You&#8217;re probably wondering why I didn&#8217;t buy the book if I like it enough to recommend it. Well, I had my iPhone with me in the store, and I looked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312532733?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=vincgabl-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0312532733\">the price on amazon<\/a>. It was <em>half<\/em> what the brick-and-mortar store was asking. So I didn&#8217;t buy it. Speaking of which, if you order the book through any of the links on this page, I get a small commission from Amazon. So please do doubt my recommendation &#8212; that&#8217;s what critical thinking is all about!<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some time to kill today, waiting for a catalytic converter replacement, and the book Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things caught my eye. It&#8217;s loosely about about the value of design and how to apply UX to everyday life. I&#8217;ve only read1 a dozen or so pages of it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,53,12,8],"tags":[462,460,399,112,461],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility","category-announcement","category-design","category-usability","tag-amazon-com","tag-art","tag-books","tag-furniture","tag-lighting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgable.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}