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

People all over the world learn to drive quite successfully with roughly the same configuration of controls. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. Why are you starving when you might be eating? The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. The work continues a theme from other books he's published, such as “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” in 2006 and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” in 1992. 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. As Petroski, in another nice little book on the subject argues, to engineer is human. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. I would recommend reading “Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design” and “To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” by Henry Petronius, an accomplished author and civil engineer. And that's good, says civil engineer Henry Petroski, the author of the book 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. The subtitle of his book is the role failure in successful design.