Currently, I'm reading 'The Inmates Are Running The Asylum' by Alan Cooper. Alan is considered the father of user experience and is a true inspiration to me. The book is about the battle between technology and consumers. With many people finding that they don't know very much about the technology they used and end up becoming lost in translation. When, in fact, users need their phones, camera, computers and cars to work the way they thing but battling with close minded developers can often be problematic. I'm only 100 pages and thoroughly enjoying it.
How I came across the book
Ever since NUX5 I've been in contact with one of the speakers at the event. I've spoken about her in the NUX5 blog post but essentially she is an alumni from UCL and studied the same MSc course I'm about to start in September. Once I found out that I got accepted into UCL I contact her and told her the news but to asked about any reading material I should be familiar with before the course started.
And that's it where she recommended Alan Coopers book.
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