Book Reading #50 - Why We Make Mistakes

Summary:

Ch 12
This chapter talks about constraints and affordances. The chapter explains how combining these two can avoid many of the errors made by the users. It talks about the measures we must to take to avoid human errors.

Ch 13
This chapter talks about predicting the happiness one and others will feel preceding an event. He gives an example of how everyone wants to move to California because they think they will be happy though that is not always the case.

Conclusion:
This chapter summarizes the whole book. Main ideas of the book are discussed and touched on. He ties them all in to explain how easy it is for us to make mistakes and why we make them. The examples given help take a better look at our errors and possibly an opportunity to correct them.

Discussion:
I enjoyed this book. I liked the insight as to why people make mistakes and I could relate to some of them and understand the why behind it.