Designing, building, and maintaining a great web site isn’t easy. It’s like golf: a handful of ways to get the ball in the hole, a million ways not to. Anyone who gets it even half right has my admiration.
Steve Krug
A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.
UX Design
Web Design
People are more tolerant of minor usability issues when the design of a product or service is aesthetically pleasing.
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.
Aesthetics
Laws of UX
The Value of Design
UX Design
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.
Laws of UX
Product Design
UX Design
People do judge books by their covers, Internet sites by their first pages, and buildings by their lobbies.
William Lidwell
The Director of Design at Stuff Creators Design in Houston and author of the best-selling design book, Universal Principles of Design.