
Google's first woman software engineer and a long-time executive there; ran Yahoo as president and CEO from 2012 until its sale to Verizon in 2017, then co-founded Sunshine.
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The book that introduced affordances, signifiers, and feedback loops to a generation of designers. Norman's analysis of why doors, phones, and stoves confuse people is the clearest argument that bad design is a systems failure, not user error. Everything else on this list builds on this vocabulary.
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