David Carson

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an “information architect” and only use Helvetica.

An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.

Design & Arts

Creativity & Ideas
Talent

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Surprise me!

Just as the sound of a tree crashing in the forest is unheard if nobody is there to hear it, so creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

Collective Thinking
Creativity & Ideas

The right idea is often the opposite of the obvious.

Alex F. Osborn

An American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.

Creativity & Ideas

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Steve Jobs

A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s and a co-founder and later a chief executive officer (CEO) of Apple Inc.

Creativity & Ideas

If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

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.

Creativity & Ideas
Flops & Failures

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