[SHORT THREAD] I'm glad that Don Norman is finally interested in discriminatory design. https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-user-friendly-design-what-i-see-today-horrifies-me

I wrote a bit about The Design of Everyday Things in my new book, #DesignJustice, in this section, titled "Everyday Things for Whom? The Distribution of Affordances and Disaffordances under the Matrix of Domination." https://design-justice.pubpub.org/pub/3h2zq86d/release/1?from=10510&to=10617

"The Design of Everyday Things is a canonical design text. It’s full of useful insights and compelling examples. However, it almost entirely ignores race, class, gender, disability, and other axes of inequality."

"Norman very briefly states that capitalism has shaped the design of objects, but says it in passing and never relates it to the key concepts of the book. Race and racism appear nowhere."

"He uses the term women only once, in a passage that describes the Amphitheatre Louis Laird in the Paris Sorbonne, where “the mural on the ceiling shows lots of naked women floating about a man who is valiantly trying to read a book.”

"Gay, lesbian, transgender: none of these terms appear. Disability is barely discussed, in a brief section titled “Designing for Special People.”

Broken thread. https://twitter.com/schock/status/1275792653410537472?s=19