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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
Format: djvu
Publisher: Vintage
Page: 269

Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. Other interesting reading on this general topic is Henry Petroski's To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. The KC Hyatt walkway collapse is the opening topic of that book. 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. 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. People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Download free pdf ebooks rapidshare, 4shared,uploading,torrent,bittorrent. Download ebook To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski pdf free.