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Don Norman (Donald Arthur Norman) was born on 25 December, 1935 in United States, is an American researcher, professor, and writer. Discover Don Norman's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 88 years old?

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1935

Donald Arthur Norman (born December 25, 1935) is an American researcher, professor, and author.

Norman is the director of The Design Lab at University of California, San Diego.

He is best known for his books on design, especially The Design of Everyday Things.

He is widely regarded for his expertise in the fields of design, usability engineering, and cognitive science, and has shaped the development of the field of cognitive systems engineering.

He is a co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, along with Jakob Nielsen.

He is also an IDEO fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of IIT Institute of Design in Chicago.

He also holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego.

Norman is an active Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he spends two months a year teaching.

Much of Norman's work involves the advocacy of user-centered design.

His books all have the underlying purpose of furthering the field of design, from doors to computers.

Norman has taken a controversial stance in saying that the design research community has had little impact in the innovation of products, and that while academics can help in refining existing products, it is technologists that accomplish the breakthroughs.

To this end, Norman named his website with the initialism JND (just-noticeable difference) to signify his endeavors to make a difference.

1957

In 1957, Norman received a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Norman received an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.

He received a PhD in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.

He was one of the earliest graduates from the Mathematical Psychology group at University of Pennsylvania and his advisor was Duncan Luce.

After graduating, Norman took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University and within a year became a lecturer.

After four years with the Center, Norman took a position as an associate professor in the Psychology Department at University of California, San Diego (UCSD).

Norman applied his training as an engineer and computer scientist, and as an experimental and mathematical psychologist, to the emerging discipline of cognitive science.

Norman eventually became founding chair of the Department of Cognitive Science and chair of the Department of Psychology.

1979

At UCSD, Norman was a founder of the Institute for Cognitive Science and one of the organizers of the Cognitive Science Society (along with Roger Schank, Allan Collins, and others), which held its first meeting at the UCSD campus in 1979.

Together with psychologist Tim Shallice, Norman proposed a framework of attentional control of executive functioning.

One of the components of the Norman-Shallice model is the supervisory attentional system.

Norman made the transition from cognitive science to cognitive engineering by entering the field as a consultant and writer.

Norman was also part of a select team flown in to investigate the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident.

1981

His article "The truth about Unix: The user interface is horrid" in Datamation (1981) catapulted him to a position of prominence in the computer world.

1993

Soon after, his career took off outside of academia, although he still remained active at UCSD until 1993.

Norman continued his work to further human-centered design by serving on numerous university and government advisory boards such as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

He currently serves on numerous committees and advisory boards like at Motorola, the Toyota National College of Technology, TED Conference, Panasonic, Encyclopædia Britannica and many more.

In 1993, Norman left UCSD to join Apple Computer, initially as an Apple Fellow as a User Experience Architect (the first use of the phrase "User Experience" in a job title ), and then as the Vice President of the Advanced Technology Group.

1995

He received two honorary degrees, one "S. V. della laurea ad honorem" in Psychology from the University of Padua in 1995 and one doctorate in Industrial Design and Engineering from Delft University of Technology.

1998

He later worked for Hewlett-Packard before joining with Jakob Nielsen to form the Nielsen Norman Group in 1998.

Norman, alongside colleague Jakob Nielsen, formed the Nielsen Norman Group (NN/g) in 1998.

2001

In 2001, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and won the Rigo Award from SIGDOC, the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group (SIG) on the Design of Communication (DOC).

2006

In 2006, he received the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science.

2009

In 2009, Norman was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Design Research Society.

2010

He returned to academia as a professor of computer science at Northwestern University, where he was co-director of the Segal Design Institute until 2010.

2011

In 2011 Norman was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of design principles based on human cognition that enhance the interaction between people and technology.

2014

In 2014, he returned to UCSD to become director of the newly established The Design Lab housed at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology.

Norman has received many awards for his work.