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One of the eternal conundrums of interaction and interface design is how to address the needs of both beginning users and expert users with a single, coherent interface.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

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

  • Design & Arts
  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • IxD
  • UI Design
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk
Elon Musk

A business magnate and investor. The founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, Tesla and other companies.

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  • UX Design
  • Clarity
  • Documentation
  • Good Design
  • Usability
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If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

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  • Design Thinking
  • Inspiration
  • Problem Solving
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In general, design failures are caused by lack of thought, not by malicious intent.

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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  • Bad UX Design
  • Design Thinking
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The truth is, all design is subjective. What one person likes, another person hates. What works in one context could fail miserably in another. This is why design is such a difficult thing to talk about, especially with people who aren’t designers.

Tom Greever
Tom Greever

An experienced product and design leader with a successful track record leading product and UX design teams from strategy to delivery. Author of the book Articulating Design Decisions.

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Communication
  • Context
  • Subjectivity
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The difference between a good designer and a great designer is in their ability to articulate how their solution solves the problem in a way that’s compelling, fosters agreement, and gets the support needed to move forward.

Tom Greever
Tom Greever

An experienced product and design leader with a successful track record leading product and UX design teams from strategy to delivery. Author of the book Articulating Design Decisions.

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  • UX Design
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
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Most of the time we don’t choose the best option — we choose the first reasonable option.

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.

  • Design & Arts
  • Ideation
  • Iteration
  • Problem Solving
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Creativity is the product of looking at a problem from many different angles.

Audrey Bryson
Audrey Bryson

A user experience researcher and designer with 10 years of experience working in higher education and communications industries.

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  • Creativity
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Users are strongly influenced by the aesthetics of any given interface, even when they try to evaluate the underlying functionality of the system.

Jon Yablonski
Jon Yablonski

Jon Yablonski is a user experience designer and front-end web developer based in Detroit. His focus is to make complex technology simple and intuitive through rigorous user research and interaction design.

  • Design & Arts
  • Aesthetics
  • Laws of UX
  • The Value of Design
  • UX Design
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People are more tolerant of minor usability issues when the design of a product or service is aesthetically pleasing.

Jon Yablonski
Jon Yablonski

Jon Yablonski is a user experience designer and front-end web developer based in Detroit. His focus is to make complex technology simple and intuitive through rigorous user research and interaction design.

  • Design & Arts
  • Aesthetics
  • Laws of UX
  • The Value of Design
  • UX Design
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