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The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top.

Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman

British journalist and writer, the author of Four Thousand Weeks, the book about making the most of our radically finite lives.

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  • Project Management
  • Productivity
  • Time Management
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Good design is instinctive. People just know whether a design is good or bad from the way it feels to use.

Alan Moore
Alan Moore

A British designer, artist, and entrepreneur. Advised companies such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Coca Cola.

  • Design & Arts
  • Good Design
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When we are at these early stages in design . . . often we’ll talk about the story for the product—we’re talking about perception. We’re talking about how you feel about the product, not in a physical sense, but in a perceptual sense.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Famous Products
  • Industrial Design
  • Perception
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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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What focus means is saying no to something that with every bone in body you think is a phenomenal idea, and you wake up thinking about it, but you say no to it because you’re focusing on something else.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Focus
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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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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 content determines the container – a basic truth in book design.

Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli

An Italian designer who worked in a number of areas ranging from package design through house-ware design and furniture design to public signage and showroom design. 

  • Design & Arts
  • Grids & Layouts
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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!

  • Design & Arts
  • Complexity
  • Laws of UX
  • Simplicity
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The psychological response people have to poorly crafted error messages can be extremely jarring. The impact that friendly error messages can have on UX is incredible.

Jennifer Aldrich
Jennifer Aldrich

A UX-obsessed product designer and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Creative Bloq, UX Magazine, A List Apart and list goes on. She has spent the last 15 years working mostly for SaaS start-ups.

  • UX Design
  • Copywriting
  • Messaging
  • UX Writing
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