Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.
Bob Baxley
A design executive who lives and works in Silicon Valley. The head of product design at Pinterest where he builds, leads, and manages a multifaceted design team.
Familiarity breeds assumptions and blind spots. Your desire to find out needs to be stronger than your desire to predict.
Erika Hall
Design consultant & co-founder of the famous Mule Design Studio. Erika is also known as an insightful speaker & writer on the topics of UX research & design.
Problem Solving
Subjectivity
UX Research
We designers create tools. Tools that you can live in, sit on, eat with, tools that enable communication and support learning, creating, and mending. Our tools can be powerful, they can be beautiful, and on many occasions they’re not motivated by understood or articulated needs.
Jony Ive
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
Industrial Design
Purpose of Design
High degrees of specialisation may be rendering us unable to see the connections between the things we design and their consequences as they ripple out into the biosphere and technosphere in ways we aren’t trained to see or may never fully understand.
Terri Irwin
An American–Australian naturalist, conservationist, author, and the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.
Purpose of Design
Responsibility
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
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.