# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-norman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:44:18.450Z

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name: "Donald Norman"
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description: "Donald Arthur Norman is an American researcher, professor, and author. Norman is the founding director of The Design Lab at University of California, San Diego. He is best known for his books on design, especially The Design of Everyday Things. He is widely regarded for his expertise in the fields of design, usability engineering, and cognitive science, and has shaped the development of the field of cognitive systems engineering. He is a co-founder of the Nielsen Norman Group, along with Jakob Nielsen. He is also an IDEO fellow and a member of the Board of Trustees of IIT Institute of Design in Chicago. He also holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego. Norman is an active Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he spends two months a year teaching."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump