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Having money may be nice, but using money gets things done.

Rob Giampietro
Rob Giampietro

A designer and writer. His recent work has touched on a range of topics, including the relationship of movement and interaction, visual identity and branding in the arts.

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  • Investment
  • Productivity
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It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent.

John Cleese
John Cleese

An English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. A co-founder of the comedy troupe Monty Python.

  • Project Management
  • Being Disciplined
  • Being Organised
  • Focus
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Choosing a typeface is an opportunity for your website, app or digital product to show personality, be memorable and stand out among its competition. And if you’re just using Open Sans, or other overly popular typeface, you’re missing out on that.

Oliver Schöndorfer
Oliver Schöndorfer

Freelance visual designer, speaker and expert on web typography.

  • Design & Arts
  • Typography
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Jony Ive on Being Better
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It is very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Being Better
  • Creativity
  • Industrial Design
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The vision is key. Once you know what you want to achieve, it’s much easier to persevere in your quest to get it done.

Seth Godin
Seth Godin

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

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Project Management
  • Being Disciplined
  • Perseverance
  • Vision
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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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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
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!

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  • Complexity
  • Laws of UX
  • Simplicity
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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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Space is a human need, and the experience of space is typically an exhilarating one.

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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People don’t think in terms of information. They think in terms of narratives. But while they focus on the story itself, information comes along for the ride. Stories, then, can act as vessels, carriers that help transmit information to others.

Jonah Berger
Jonah Berger

A professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. An expert on word of mouth, viral marketing, social influence, and how products, ideas, and behaviors catch on.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Communication
  • Content Creation
  • Storytelling
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