A collection of quotes that attempts to describe the practice of design, updated semi-regularly.
17/09/2021
“Get rid of half of the words on each page, then get rid of half of what’s left.”
E.B. White, Elements of Style
16/09/2021
“Page names are like street signs of the web”
Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think
15/09/2021
“What you call things is often more important than how you have the information organized.”
Susan Weinschenk, 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know about People
14/09/2021
“People learn how to trust machines only if they mimic the way we come to trust other people”
Cliff Kuang, User Friendly: How the Hidden Rules of of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play
13/09/2021
“While designing the parts of a product that are user facing – the buttons, displays, labels etc. the “correct” form isn’t directed by functionality at all, it is directed by the psychology and behavior of the users.”
Jesse James Garrett, The Elements of User Experience