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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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When you’re designing Web pages, it’s probably a good idea to assume that everything is visual noise until proven otherwise.

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Website Development
  • Noise & Distraction
  • UX Design
  • Web Design
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Beauty comes from conscious reflection and experience. It is influenced by knowledge, learning, and culture. Objects that are unattractive on the surface can give pleasure. Discordant music, for example, can be beautiful. Ugly art can be beautiful.

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
  • Beauty
  • Design Thinking
  • Psychology
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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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Tell me sweet, tell me true, or else my dear, to hell with you.

Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi

An American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).

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  • Other
  • Project Management
  • Clarity
  • Collaboration
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Colour Contrast Shape - Quotesthetics
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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.

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  • Clarity
  • Design Skills
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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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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We know screen real estate is limited, and attempting to cram too much information on a page often does more harm than good.

Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Website Development
  • UX Design
  • White Space
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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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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".

  • Design & Arts
  • Usability
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