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Invest in others before you ask them to invest in you. It is harder to make a withdrawal if you haven’t been making regular deposits.

Meridith Elliott Powel
Meridith Elliott Powel

One of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair. An award winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist.

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Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and culture. Objects that are unattractive on the surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.

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.

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  • Beauty
  • Design Thinking
  • Psychology
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When people are anxious they tend to narrow their thought processes, concentration upon aspects directly relevant to a problem. This is a useful strategy in escaping from danger, but not in thinking of imaginative new approaches to a problem.

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
  • Creativity
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Derek Birdsall White Space

White space is the lungs of the layout. It’s not there for aesthetic reasons. It’s there for physical reasons.

Derek Birdsall
Derek Birdsall

An internationally renowned British graphic designer.

  • Design & Arts
  • Space
  • White Space
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Time September 11 Cover

Having done a lot of magazines, I’m very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see how ‘Time’ and ‘Newsweek’ would handle 9/11. And I was basically pretty disappointed to see that they had chosen to show the photo we’d already seen a million times, which was basically the moment of impact.

David Carson
David Carson

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Covers
  • Magazine Design
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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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Our lives and our businesses are defined by our connections. The size of your network and the quality of your connections determine the trajectory of your success. Relationships translate into opportunities.

Meridith Elliott Powel
Meridith Elliott Powel

One of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair. An award winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist.

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Your brand is the story that others recall when they think of you.

Laura Busche
Laura Busche

Brand Content Strategist at Autodesk. The author of Lean Branding and Powering Content.

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  • Branding
  • Storytelling
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Computer literacy is really an euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people’s usual ways of thinking.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Usability
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The design process is the one of sifting through the less important to find the essential.

Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi

An American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).

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  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
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