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An aesthetically pleasing design creates a positive response in people’s brains and leads them to believe the design actually works better.

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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What people say they do isn’t always a perfect match for what they actually do. Observe the actual action, you may pick up on a few things that they’re not verbalizing. When it comes to user behavior, seeing is most definitely believing.

Joe Natoli
Joe Natoli

UX designer who writes books, runs podcast and teaches public about designing and building great products that deliver meaningful user experience (UX).

  • Design & Arts
  • Asking Customers
  • Interviewing
  • UX Research
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If value goes out to the people who use the product, it’s highly likely that value will come back to the creator. Value out equals value back in.

Joe Natoli
Joe Natoli

UX designer who writes books, runs podcast and teaches public about designing and building great products that deliver meaningful user experience (UX).

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Value Proposition
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If you can’t measure something, you probably can’t achieve or manage it simply because you’ll never know if you’ve reached it.

Joe Natoli
Joe Natoli

UX designer who writes books, runs podcast and teaches public about designing and building great products that deliver meaningful user experience (UX).

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Analytics
  • UX Design
  • UX Research
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To design desktop-first is like trying to put a marshmallow into a piggy bank, which is neither simple, nor beautiful.

Joel Marsh
Joel Marsh

UX designer who uses behavioural science to create products and services used by over half-a-billion people, worldwide.

  • Design & Arts
  • Mobile-First
  • Responsive Design
  • Web Design
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Focus on benefits, not features! Benefits sell, features don’t. Benefits also help build stories, which customers can relate to. People are wired to see their lives as a narrative, a story to share with others.

Wizards of UX
Wizards of UX

This quote is hard to attribute to one particular person as it is a generally accepted piece of advice repeated by many. It is part of the collective wisdom of Wizards of UX!

  • Design & Arts
  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Product Design
  • Storytelling
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What do people mean when they ask for simplicity? They want the simplicity of one-button operation, but with all of their favourite features. It simply is not possible.

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
  • Life is Complex
  • Simplicity
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Complexity can be tamed, but it requires considerable effort to do it well. Decreasing the number of buttons and displays is not the solution.

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
  • Complexity
  • Simplicity
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Design is a powerful weapon. Make pictures, not arguments, to win the war.

Leah Buley
Leah Buley

A veteran of the experience design industry, author of the book The User Experience Team of One, and VP of Experience at Publicis Sapient.

  • Design & Arts
  • Demos & Prototyping
  • Design Thinking
  • Sketching
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Showing your colleagues and clients the messy design process can be a bit like making sausage: sometimes it can ruin their appetite for the meal.

Leah Buley
Leah Buley

A veteran of the experience design industry, author of the book The User Experience Team of One, and VP of Experience at Publicis Sapient.

  • Design & Arts
  • Complexity
  • Design Process
  • Design Thinking
  • Product Development
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