A collection of quotes that have helped me better understand the practice of design, updated every week or ten.
12/11/21
“Design is the rendering of intent. What we intentionally design can delight someone. It can also frustrate them. We can change our rendering, with the intention to create more delight & less frustration. When we do that, we’re designing the user’s experience.”
Jared Pool, Center Center · UIE
30/09/21
“In terms of stifling innovation, good ideas are far more dangerous than bad ones. They take hold, assume momentum, and therefore result in inertia. Consequently, they are hard to displace, even when they are well past their prime.”
Bill Buxton, Sketching User Experiences
20/09/21
“The greatest design challenge for the 21st century is creating better, tighter feedback loops where none exist yet, be they in the environment, health care, or government.”
Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
19/09/21
“The 6 fundamental psychological principles that aid discoverability are affordances, signifiers, constraints, mapping, feedback and conceptual models. Out of these, the conceptual model is the most important as it leads to true understanding.”
Don Norman, The Design of Everyday Things
18/09/21
“Design is to design the design of a design”
Professor John Heskett
