January 02, 2020
Ozan Varol’s Think Like A Rocket Scientist on Adam Grant’s LinkedIn list of 20 New Leadership Books of 2020.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20-new-leadership-books-2020-adam-grant/
December 26, 2019
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s USER FRIENDLY on New York Times list of “10 New Books We Recommend This Week.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/books/review/10-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
December 21, 2019
An excerpt from Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s USER FRIENDLY on Fast Company’s list “7 essential reads.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/90436599/where-is-design-is-going-in-2020-here-are-7-essential-reads
December 18, 2019
User Friendly author Cliff Kuang is interviewed by Marketplace‘s Molly Wood: “Great interface design is often invisible. But maybe it shouldn’t be.”
December 12, 2019
Melinda Gates’s Moment of Lift included in Bloomberg‘s “annual list of what the most powerful people in business read this year.”
December 08, 2019
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s User Friendly included on Fortune’s list, Best Books of 2019:
“Offers a history of user-centered design that’s delightfully true to its title…[T]houghtfully organized, rigorously reported, and deftly presented.”
December 03, 2019
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s User Friendly receives rave review in design blog Core77 from Allan Chochinov:
“A contemporary treatise that is sure to become a foundational text. (And I’ll make this simple: If you’re looking for holiday gifts and you’re a designer-type, buy ten of these, wrap ‘em up, and figure out who gets ‘em as you’re walking out the door. Guaranteed satisfaction for all your employees, partners, clients, and students, this book would also be useful to anyone—or anyone’s parents—who wonder what designers actually do.)”
https://www.core77.com/posts/91628/You-Just-Take-Away-Everything-Unnecessary
December 03, 2019
Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s User Friendly is reviewed by Clay Chandler in Fortune’s Business By Design:
“True to its title, User Friendly offers a lucid account of the rise of human-centric design—one that doesn’t require a degree from design school to appreciate.”
https://content.fortune.com/newsletter/business-by-design/?post_id=2741019
November 24, 2019
USA Today includes Melinda Gates’s Moment of Lift in their Gift Guide: “Books for even the most finicky readers on your holiday shopping list.”
November 19, 2019
Edward Tenner reviews Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant’s User Friendly for New York Times:
“A tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/19/books/review/user-friendly-cliff-kuang-robert-fabricant.html
November 19, 2019
Cliff Kuang, author of User Friendly, pens piece for Fast Company, “Apple built a $1 trillion empire on two metaphors. One is breaking.”
“Who knows how much easier, how much more satisfying, our digital lives might be if the governing metaphor for smartphones were one of human connection, rather than programs.”
November 05, 2019
Elizabeth Kolbert’s Sixth Extinction and Matthew Desmond’s Evited both make Lit Hub’s 20 Best Nonfiction Books of the Decade.
https://lithub.com/the-20-best-works-of-nonfiction-of-the-decade/