How long does it take to read User Centered System Design?
Donald A. Norman, Stephen W. Draper
User Centered System Design by Donald A. Norman, Stephen W. Draper takes about 9 hours 39 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 39 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1986. 526 pages, about 144,650 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 39 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a book about the design of computers from the user's point of view. The emphasis is on people, rather than the technology. This book is about the directions in which computers must move. This is a book of ideas, of analytical techniques described for their purpose, a book from which to derive the new questions in which design must move. The essays are pluralistic, offering a variety of perspectives, including the traditional study of human information processing structures, the subjective experience of the user and how to enhance it, and the social context of computing. The authors hope that the ideas discussed herein will lead to new kinds of interfaces--new, different, and more user friendly.
Subjects: Human-computer interaction, System design, Human-machine systems, Interactive computer systems, Human engineering, Sociotechnical systems
