Donald Arthur Norman was born on December 25,1935 and is an American researcher, professor, and author.
25 Facts About Donald Norman
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Donald Norman is best known for his books on design, especially The Design of Everyday Things.
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Donald Norman is widely regarded for his expertise in the fields of design, usability engineering, and cognitive science, and has shaped the development of the field of cognitive systems engineering.
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Donald Norman is a co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, along with Jakob Nielsen.
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Donald Norman is an IDEO fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of IIT Institute of Design in Chicago.
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Donald Norman holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego.
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Donald Norman is an active Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, where he spends two months a year teaching.
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Much of Donald Norman's work involves the advocacy of user-centered design.
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Donald Norman has taken a controversial stance in saying that the design research community has had little impact in the innovation of products, and that while academics can help in refining existing products, it is technologists that accomplish the breakthroughs.
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Donald Norman received a PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Donald Norman was one of the earliest graduates from the Mathematical Psychology group at University of Pennsylvania and his advisor was Duncan Luce.
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Donald Norman applied his training as an engineer and computer scientist, and as an experimental and mathematical psychologist, to the emerging discipline of cognitive science.
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Donald Norman eventually became founding chair of the Department of Cognitive Science and chair of the Department of Psychology.
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At UCSD, Donald Norman was a founder of the Institute for Cognitive Science and one of the organizers of the Cognitive Science Society, which held its first meeting at the UCSD campus in 1979.
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Together with psychologist Tim Shallice, Donald Norman proposed a framework of attentional control of executive functioning.
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Donald Norman made the transition from cognitive science to cognitive engineering by entering the field as a consultant and writer.
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Donald Norman continued his work to further human-centered design by serving on numerous university and government advisory boards such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
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Donald Norman was part of a select team flown in to investigate the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident.
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In 1993, Donald Norman left UCSD to join Apple Computer, initially as an Apple Fellow as a User Experience Architect, and then as the Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group.
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Donald Norman later worked for Hewlett-Packard before joining with Jakob Nielsen to form the Nielsen Norman Group in 1998.
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Donald Norman returned to academia as a professor of computer science at Northwestern University, where he was co-director of the Segal Design Institute until 2010.
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In 2009, Donald Norman was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Design Research Society.
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In 2011 Donald Norman was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of design principles based on human cognition that enhance the interaction between people and technology.
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Similar to his The Design of Everyday Things book, Donald Norman argues for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than have our minds be conformed to the machine.
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Donald Norman published several important books during his time at UCSD, one of which, User Centered System Design, obliquely referred to the university in the initials of its title.