A big definition of who you are as a designer is the way you look at the world. And I guess one of the curses of what you do, is you are constantly looking at something and thinking, ‘Why? Why is it like that? Why is it like that and not like this?’
Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.
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Everyone looks at things but very few people see effectively. Designers must be able to see. Seeing means a trained super-awarness of visual codes like shape, colour, texture, pattern and contrast. These codes make a language of vision, much as words are building blocks for verbal language.
A professor at California State University and a practising design consultant and author of several articles and books on design theory and tips on visual communication.
Focus on benefits, not features! Benefits sell, features don’t. Benefits also help build stories, which customers can relate to. People are wired to see their lives as a narrative, a story to share with others.
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!
If value goes out to the people who use the product, it’s highly likely that value will come back to the creator. Value out equals value back in.
UX designer who writes books, runs podcast and teaches public about designing and building great products that deliver meaningful user experience (UX).
If we design and construct products in such a way that the people who use them achieve their goals, these people will be satisfied, effective, and happy and will gladly pay for the products and recommend that others do the same.
An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".
