Quotes

Quotes

One of the eternal conundrums of interaction and interface design is how to address the needs of both beginning users and expert users with a single, coherent interface.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • IxD
  • UI Design
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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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Having money may be nice, but using money gets things done.

Rob Giampietro
Rob Giampietro

A designer and writer. His recent work has touched on a range of topics, including the relationship of movement and interaction, visual identity and branding in the arts.

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  • Business
  • Investment
  • Productivity
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Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

Jim Horning
Jim Horning

An American computer scientist and ACM Fellow.

  • Website Development
  • Computer Science
  • Ongoing Support
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Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?

Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Georgian revolutionary and political leader who governed the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953.

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  • Content Marketing
  • Ideas
  • Messaging
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Industrial Design
  • Intuitive Design
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People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while they focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride. Stories, then, can act as vessels, carriers that help transmit information to others.

Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Communication
  • Content Creation
  • Storytelling
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Donald Arthur Norman

I invented the term (UX Architect) because I thought human interface and usability were too narrow. I wanted to cover all aspects of the person’s experience with a system, including industrial design, graphics, the interface, the physical interaction, and the manual.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

  • Design & Arts
  • History
  • UX Design
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I start with the laugh and work backwards from there.

Bill Bailey
Bill Bailey

English actor, comedian, musician and singer. Known for creative ways of incorporating music into his comedy.

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  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Design Thinking
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Contrast - Quotesthetics

Without contrast, you are dead.

Paul Rand
Paul Rand

An American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs (ABC, Enron, IBM, NeXT).

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Principles
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