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The difference between a good designer and a great designer is in their ability to articulate how their solution solves the problem in a way that’s compelling, fosters agreement, and gets the support needed to move forward.

Tom Greever
Tom Greever

An experienced product and design leader with a successful track record leading product and UX design teams from strategy to delivery. Author of the book Articulating Design Decisions.

  • Design & Arts
  • UX Design
  • Collaboration
  • Communication
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Sometimes a tree can tell you more than can be read in a book.

Carl Jung
Carl Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

  • Design & Arts
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Inspiration
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Purposefully adding a delay to a process can actually increase its perceived value and instill a sense of trust, even when the process itself actually takes much less time.

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!

  • UX Design
  • Design Principles
  • IxD
  • Laws of UX
  • Timing
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People prefer simplicity. Given the option, any sane person will choose the simple path over one that’s more complicated.

Ken Segall
Ken Segall

Author and advertising creative director. Specializing in technology marketing, Segall was Steve Jobs' agency creative director for 12 years working for NeXT and Apple, and also for Dell, Intel and IBM.

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Simplicity
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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen. Many discoveries would be inconceivable without the prior knowledge, without the intellectual and social network that stimulated creative thinking, and without the social mechanisms that recognized and spread the innovations.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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
  • Collective Thinking
  • Creativity
  • Oversimplification
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Our perception of things can be altered simply be the angle we choose to look at something.

Keri Smith
Keri Smith

Canadian conceptual artist and author of several bestselling books including How to be an Explorer of the World - The Portable Life/Art Museum.

  • Design & Arts
  • Inspiration
  • Perception
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The level of control provided by a system should be related to the proficiency and experience levels of the people using the system.

William Lidwell
William Lidwell

The Director of Design at Stuff Creators Design in Houston and author of the best-selling design book, Universal Principles of Design.

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Principles
  • UI Design
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What users say they want is rarely the solution that would best solve their problems. User requests are symptoms of unmet goals and needs, not the solutions.

Doug Collins
Doug Collins

UX designer, writer speaker, mentor within the UX community and the founder and leader of The NUXers, a Denver-based group aimed at giving new UX professionals the skills they need to be successful in the business world. 

  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Product Design
  • Usability
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Products that require a high degree of behavioural change are doomed to fail even if the benefits of using the new product are clear and substantial.

Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal

Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

  • Other
  • Innovation & Adaptation
  • Product Design
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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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