Hosts 

Abhishek (left) - @__heyabhi 

Hiteshwar (right) - @hiteshwarmehla  

We discuss User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play authored by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant. A fresh perspective to an underdiscussed area of the world around us.  

Book Topics 

02:09 - Brief Overview

03:28 - What is User-Friendly?

04:53 - 3 Mile island nuclear story

11:55 - Real life bad designs examples

19:43 - Design over practicality? 

25:00 - Design for Error

26:51 - Self Driving Cars - Ain't no trust?

30:47 - India: Good luck self driving here

31:47 - The Deadly Duo - Driver less and silent electric cars

Straight Masala 

37:24 - Fiction vs Non Fiction 

46:27 - Shorts taking over YouTube?

Links 

User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

https://www.amazon.in/User-Friendly-H... 

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