The Observable Universe Martina Mondadori The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how -- and why -- some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them

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The Observable Universe Martina Mondadori The Design of Everyday ThingsA moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyper connected world In the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost her parents to AIDS. Orphaned by age ten, she was raised by her grandmother in Los Angeles, a fragmented city, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction. Years later, unmoored by grief, she begins exploring the history of HIV as a