Quotes

Quotes

Nobody cares! Your reader isn’t eagerly waiting for your [marketing] copy. In fact, they’d rather not read it at all. You have literally seconds to capture their attention before it jumps to something else.

Tom Albrighton
Tom Albrighton

UK-based copywriter and author of books on content writing.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Content Creation
  • Copywriting
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Public kiosks run an unfortunate risk of being a disease vector, so your first pass should try for noncontact inputs like voice, proximity switches, or non-contact gestural inputs.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

  • Design & Arts
  • Tips & Advice
  • Usability
  • UX Design
  • UX Elements
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We know screen real estate is limited, and attempting to cram too much information on a page often does more harm than good.

Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen

A former Sun Microsystems Engineer and "The world's leading expert on Web usability" (www.useit.com).

  • Design & Arts
  • Website Development
  • UX Design
  • White Space
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Our best work is the work we do for the sake of others.

Steffanie Lorig
Steffanie Lorig

An award-winning designer and founder of social enterprise, Art with Heart, an organization dedicated to helping children in crisis through the power of creativity. 

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  • Motivation
  • Work Ethic
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Storytelling

Engagement on the web has an awful lot to do with telling a good story.

Eric Karjaluoto
Eric Karjaluoto

The creative director at smashLAB and the founder of MakeFive.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Content Marketing
  • Storytelling
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Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to.

Dwight David
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower

An American army general who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Motivation
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An increasing number of individuals in our economy are now competing with the rock stars of their sectors. Even if the talent advantage of the best is small compared to the next rung down on the skill ladder, the superstars still win the bulk of the market.

Cal Newport
Cal Newport

American non-fiction author and associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University.

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  • Career
  • Freelancing
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High degrees of specialisation may be rendering us unable to see the connections between the things we design and their consequences as they ripple out into the biosphere and technosphere in ways we aren’t trained to see or may never fully understand.

Terri Irwin
Terri Irwin

An American–Australian naturalist, conservationist, author, and the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.

  • Design & Arts
  • Purpose of Design
  • Responsibility
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Ideas are extremely fragile but come from a desire to explore!

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Ideas
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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal

Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

  • Other
  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Innovation & Adaptation
  • Product Design
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