3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Douglas Engelbart's 1962 report to DARPA arguing that the most important use of computers is augmenting human intellectual capabilities — not automating existing tasks but expanding what humans can think and do — laying the philosophical foundation for personal computing.
Computer scientist at Stanford specializing in human-computer interaction — affiliated with Stanford HAI — known for research on sketch-based interfaces, mobile computing, and AI-powered user interfaces.
Don Norman's 1988 (revised 2013) argument that bad design is the designer's fault, not the user's — introducing affordances, signifiers, feedback, conceptual models, and the seven stages of action — the most widely assigned design book in the world.