Daily dose of wisdom for people who design.
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“Job number one for product design: minimize the gap between what your product is and why it exists.”
- Luke Wroblewski
“Attention to detail can’t be (and never is) added later. It’s an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.”
- Marco Arment
“It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people’s lives.”
- Don Norman
“Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen.”
- Jakob Nielsen
“It’s art if can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one asks for an explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.”
- Wouter Stokkel
“A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.”
- Joel Spolsky
“Design isn’t crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It’s figuring out if there’s a way to get rid of the button altogether.”
- Edward Tufte
“Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.”
- Jakob Nielsen
“Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people’s minds.”
- Jony Ive
“If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.”
- Alan Cooper
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible,”
- Don Norman
