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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski ebook
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161
Publisher: Vintage
Page: 269
Format: djvu

The last post about "The Evolution of Useful Things" reminded me about another of Petroski's books that I read some years ago: "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design". To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. Henry Petroski is also the author of To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, which should be accessible to nearly everyone. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. The activities, after all, are human activities, so they reflect the possible range of actions, of conditions under which people are able to function, and the constraints of real people. One of my favourite authors is Henry Petroski, whose book To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design led me to read anything he publishes. This book uncovers the issues with design and the lessons we can learn from failure. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design! I am reminded of Henry Petroki's brilliant book - “to engineer is human”. I've been reading a popular text on engineering by Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1982/1992). To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Human-Centered Design has become such a dominant theme in design that it is now accepted by interface and application designers automatically, without thought, let alone criticism. But I have not lost my interest in engineering.