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• Video: Don Norman and John Maeda

  July 31, 2012 Don Norman, Principal of Nielsen Norman Group, and John Maeda, now president of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) had a public, semi-moderated discussion at a PARC Forum.

• The Remote Control Where Do We Go From Here?

  July 5, 2012 One hour podcast: According to one of today's guests, the percentage of television-owning households with remote controls did not break 50 until right around then. Now we all have them. And we get bitter about needing three of them to do more or less one thing. And we hate their complexity and the number of buttons that don't seem connected to anything. This is probably their twilight, anyway, as you'll see after the news.

• Interview with Don Norman: The Future of Automobiles

  May 16, 2012 Don Norman was interviewed by Neil Briscoe for an article in IrishTimes.com: Is the love affair about to end? "Are cars as we know them to become a thing of the past?" asks the article. Where is the room for "Driving passion"? The question, Briscoe points out, is whether we can continue to have single people driving around, each in a ton and a half of metal.

• Don Norman: Microsoft has a real opportunity with Windows 8

  March 23, 2012 The cofounder of the Nielsen Norman Group discusses Microsoft's challenges and opportunities with Windows 8, and why it might actually be superior to Android and iOS.

• The gadgets of 2025: Frog unveils vision of the future

  March 19, 2012 For three days, FoxNews.com met with Frog, the global design and innovation firm in San Francisco that helped shape the original Mac computers and many of the most popular gadgets we use. Here are the concepts for the future that Frog developed after "frogthink" with their most brilliant brains.

• Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? Read more: Do E-Books Make It Harder to Remember What You Just Read? | TIME.com http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/14/do-e-books-impair-memor

  March 14, 2012 Digital books are lighter and more convenient to tote around than paper books, but there may be advantages to old technology.

• Essay by Don Norman: The Rise of the Small

  February 29, 2012 Steelcase celebrated its 100th anniversary by asking 100 people to write essays about their dreams for the next 100 years. It is an impressive list of people and I am honored to be one of them. My essay, my dream is "the rise of the small." Here is the start: I dream of the power of individuals, whether alone or in small groups, to unleash their creative spirits, their imagination, and their talents to develop a wide range of innovation.

• How the Daily Mail stormed the US

  January 27, 2012 The Daily Mail has overtaken the New York Times to become the world's most visited newspaper website, according to online tracking service Comscore. The biggest increase in readers has been in the US - so how did this very British institution do it?

• Jakob Nielsen on Usability for Mobile Sites and Apps

  December 30, 2011 The biggest mistakes companies make when building their sites and apps? 1. Making it difficult to touch and manipulate....2. Trying to do too much.

• Can a Standard Panic Button Save Lives?

  December 22, 2011 In the age of adaptive cruise control, lane departure warnings, and self-parking vehicles, many drivers are confused about one simple operation: shutting down the car in an emergency.