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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At no point should your task require the user to hold more than seven items in their working memory at any moment.
George Armitage Miller
An American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science.
- Design & Arts
- Laws of UX
- Product Design
- UX Design
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The total complexity of a system is a constant: as we make the person’s interaction simpler, the hidden complexity behind the scenes increases.
Larry Tesler
A pioneering computer scientist who helped make it easier for us to interact with computers, whether cutting and pasting text or selecting text by dragging a cursor through it. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo!
- Design & Arts
- Complexity
- Laws of UX
- Simplicity
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Henry L. Mencken
An American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements.
- Design & Arts
- Problem Solving
- Simplicity
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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
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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Modern technology can be complex, but complexity by itself is neither good nor bad: it is confusion that is bad.
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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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
An author and former Vice President of Direct Marketing at Yahoo!
- Design & Arts
- Artist
- Talent
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White space is the lungs of the layout. It’s not there for aesthetic reasons. It’s there for physical reasons.
Derek Birdsall
An internationally renowned British graphic designer.
- Design & Arts
- Horror Vacui
- Minimalism
- Space
- White Space
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A fundamental part of creative process is making mistakes together. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.
Jony Ive
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
- Design & Arts
- Collective Thinking
- Creativity & Ideas
- Making Mistakes
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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
- Creativity
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