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Without creativity, it would be difficult indeed to distinguish humans from apes.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

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If you make a startlingly beautiful and original design, the front face of your product doesn’t need to bear neither the company logo nor the name of the product. It stands for itself. It becomes a cultural icon.

Christopher Stringer
Christopher Stringer

An industrial designer, formerly working for Apple. During his 22 years at Apple, he contributed to the design of the PowerBook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch.

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Learn more 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".

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As we get more technically driven, the importance of people becomes more than it’s ever been before. You have to utilize who you are in your work. Nobody else can do that: nobody else can pull from your background, from your parents, your upbringing, your whole life experience.

David Carson
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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  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Experience
  • Technology
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As the level of exposure to the novel art increases with time, familiarity with these unconventional objects of art also increases and results in greater acceptance and popularity.

Kritina Holden
Kritina Holden

A Human Factors specialist at Lockheed Martin–Space Operations and NASA. Human-computer interaction expert.

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  • Art & Creativity
  • Novelty
  • Psychology
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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen. Many discoveries would be inconceivable without the prior knowledge, without the intellectual and social network that stimulated creative thinking, and without the social mechanisms that recognized and spread the innovations.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

  • Design & Arts
  • Collective Thinking
  • Creativity
  • Oversimplification
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art.

Richard Holloway
Richard Holloway

Scottish writer, broadcaster and cleric. He was the Bishop of Edinburgh from 1986 to 2000 and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church from 1992 to 2000.

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  • Art
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  • Simplicity
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The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. One is unable to notice something because it is always before one’s eyes.

Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein

An Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics and the philosophy of mind. He is considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the 20th century.

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  • Curiosity
  • Familiarity
  • Inspiration
  • Simplicity
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Barry Schwartz – People think more creatively and expansively when they are happy

All other things being equal, it’s better to be happy than not

Despite our romantic images of suffering geniuses who have enriched our civilization, creative by day and tormented by night, there is a growing body of evidence that people think more creatively and expansively when they’re happy than when they’re not.

Source: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Book) by Barry Schwartz

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  • Psychology
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When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. On the other hand, if people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient — or just happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss

An American industrial engineer, renowned for designing and improving the usability of consumer products such as Hoover vacuum cleaner or the tabletop telephone.

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  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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