[isaachawley]

The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman. Now I know _why_ my kitchen appliances irritate me.

Mountaineering: The Freedom of the Hills. How to navigate the landscape. And who has right-of-way on the trail.

Any textbook on Statics and Dynamics. Physics.

How to Win Friends and Influence People. This is the book that people trying to manipulate you have read.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases These serve as lenses through which you can view a situation to get new perspective. Like looking through a piece of red plastic to filter out red ink and see a hidden message in yellow ink, if you remember that as a child. Not in some authoritative sense, but different perspectives you can hold in your mind.

[_mitterpach]

The DoET by Norman featured, to my memory, a very memorable praise for the at-the-time car design, where the driver could interact with buttons and knobs while not having to take his eyes off the road, simply by the proxy of being able to feel roughly the layout of the controls.

Then the automotive industry went and changed it all with touch screens. Yes the cars have become safer with so many innovations for passanger safety, but I wonder if we went too far with all the screens.