Pizza Slow, Mastodon post from February 4, 2024, 111874405993940842

Fourth book of 2024: “Mismatch” ( https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539487/mismatch/ ) subtitled “How Inclusion Shapes Design” by Kat Holmes ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch).

MismatchSometimes designed objects reject their users: a computer mouse that doesn't work for left-handed people, for example, or a touchscreen payment system that o...MIT Press

Figure 1. Link preview of https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262539487/mismatch/, "Mismatch".

Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes DesignHow inclusive methods can build elegant design solution…Goodreads

Figure 2. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39644200-mismatch, "Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design".

I grabbed this one after landing on a Don Norman piece ( https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me). I enjoyed “The Design of Everyday Things" so I followed Norman’s suggestion to read Mismatch.

Pretty quick read, and full of things so obviously correct that I got impatient with the author’s patience? Good stuff.

The paperback cover of Mismatch as I read it. Black helvitca on white title, subtitle, author, foreward author, left-aligned-on-center, top third. a design that reads like the 70s/80s trend of “generic” stuff, The bottom half is a black swirl stroke broken into 8 textures: blot, spikes, dots, bands, checkerboard, circles, stripes, and brush. — Figure 3. The paperback cover of Mismatch as I read it. Black helvitca on white title, subtitle, author, foreward author, left-aligned-on-center, top third. a design that reads like the 70s/80s trend of “generic” stuff, The bottom half is a black swirl stroke broken into 8 textures: blot, spikes, dots, bands, checkerboard, circles, stripes, and brush.

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