Donald A. Norman Quotes About Writing

• Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.

  Donald A. Norman

  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

• Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.

  Donald A. Norman

  Writing, Organization, Ideas

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, pp. 212 - 213., 1988.

• We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning, of learning and practice it takes to be skilled at even the most fundamental of human activities: eating, walking, talking, reading, and writing. It is tempting to want instant gratification - immediate expert performance and experiential pleasure - but the truth is that this primarily occurs only after considerable amounts of accretion and tuning.

  Donald A. Norman

  Reading, Believe, Writing

• Isn't one of your first exercises in learning how to communicate to write a description of how to tie your shoelaces? The point being that it's basically impossible to use text to show that

  Donald A. Norman

  Writing, Exercise, Ties

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