Nir Eyal

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

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

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If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

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.

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Flops & Failures

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an “information architect” and only use Helvetica.

David Carson

An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.

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Talent

The greatness of art is to find not what is common, but what is unique.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

A Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.

Creativity & Ideas

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s and a co-founder and later a chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.

Creativity & Ideas

Nir Eyal

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