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Everyone looks at things but very few people see effectively. Designers must be able to see. Seeing means a trained super-awarness of visual codes like shape, colour, texture, pattern and contrast. These codes make a language of vision, much as words are building blocks for verbal language.

Gregg Berryman
Gregg Berryman

A professor at California State University and a practising design consultant and author of several articles and books on design theory and tips on visual communication.

  • Design & Arts
  • Clarity
  • Design Skills
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Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.

Bob Baxley
Bob Baxley

A design executive who lives and works in Silicon Valley. The head of product design at Pinterest where he builds, leads, and manages a multifaceted design team.

  • Design & Arts
  • Problem Solving
  • Purpose of Design
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Being an artist isn’t a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It’s an attitude we can all adopt. It’s a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you’re an artist.

Seth Godin
Seth Godin

An author and former Vice President of Direct Marketing at Yahoo!

  • Design & Arts
  • Artist
  • Talent
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White space is like a statuesque calm just before an ice skater begins a routine. It sets into perfect contrast animation that follows.

Kenneth J. Hiebert
Kenneth J. Hiebert

A professor of graphic design at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.

  • Design & Arts
  • Space
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Typography in practise is not choosing fonts or making fonts, it’s about shaping text for optimal user experience.

Oliver Reichenstein
Oliver Reichenstein

The founder and director of Information Architects, the Tokyo, Zurich, and Berlin-based design agency.

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  • Typography
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A door may afford pulling or pushing, depending on which way it opens. When a person can see in advance whether to pull or push the door to open it, that’s a good user interface.

Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen

A former Sun Microsystems Engineer and "The world's leading expert on Web usability" (www.useit.com).

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • UI Design
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Oliver Schöndorfer – Stop using Open Sans!

Typography is the clothes your words wear – Stop using Open Sans!

When looking at a website or app on your phone, what remains from your branding except colors and images – it’s mostly text. For the mobile view of a website there is not much room left for a special layout. And for an app the UX conventions are mostly predetermined by the given platform like iOS or Android (which they should be). So the choice of a font is your chance to stand out.

  • Typography
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The major cause of complicated, confusing, frustrating systems is not complexity: It is poor design which leads to the emotional distress we have come to associate with modern technology. Good design can provide a desirable, pleasurable sense of empowerment.

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
  • Bad UX Design
  • Complexity
  • Life is Complex
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Old habits die hard and new products or services need to offer dramatic improvements to shake users out of old routines.

Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Innovation & Adaptation
  • Novelty
  • Product Design
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There is no recipe for a good layout. What must be maintained is a feeling of change and contrast.

Alexey Brodowitch
Alexey Brodowitch

An Russian-born American photographer, designer and instructor who is most famous for his art direction of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.

  • Design & Arts
  • Contrast
  • Grids & Layouts
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