Quotes

Quotes

Learn more Great designers understand the powerful role that psychology plays in visual perception. What happens when someone’s eye meets your design creations? How does their mind react to the message your piece is sharing?

Laura Busche
Laura Busche

Brand Content Strategist at Autodesk. The author of Lean Branding and Powering Content.

  • Design & Arts
  • Perception
  • Psychology
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People do judge books by their covers, Internet sites by their first pages, and buildings by their lobbies.

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
  • First Impression
  • UX Design
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Progress bars help make wait times tolerable, regardless of their accuracy.

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
  • Animations
  • Design Principles
  • IxD
  • Timing
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One of the flaws in the way we recount stories of innovation is that we unfairly single out individuals, ignoring the contribution of lesser mortals.

Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley

A British journalist and businessman. He is best known for his writings on science, the environment, and economics.

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Project Management
  • creative genius
  • Innovation
  • misconceptions
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Most of the time we don’t choose the best option — we choose the first reasonable option.

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.

  • Design & Arts
  • Ideation
  • Iteration
  • Problem Solving
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People are more tolerant of minor usability issues when the design of a product or service is aesthetically pleasing.

Jon Yablonski
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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Aesthetics
  • Laws of UX
  • The Value of Design
  • UX Design
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It is important to remember that many devices are available to make layouts exciting. The purpose of the grid is to provide consistency to the layouts, but not necessarily excitement – which will be provided by the sum of all the elements in the design.

Massimo Vignelli
Massimo Vignelli

An Italian designer who worked in a number of areas ranging from package design through house-ware design and furniture design to public signage and showroom design. 

  • Design & Arts
  • Consistency
  • Grids & Layouts
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When I look closely at the work of all my favourite artists and designers I notice the all have one thing in common … they are collectors.

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
  • Art
  • Artist
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Long Term Memory - Quotesthetics
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Branding is accomplished only when we have a relevant message that is repeated with enough frequency to become stored in chemical memory.

Bryan Eisenberg
Bryan Eisenberg

Internationally recognized authority and pioneer in online marketing.

  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Branding
  • Communication
  • Messaging
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Job interviews, in general, are plagued by a decontextualization problem. In other words, what we do in job interviews isn’t often all that similar to what we actually do on the job.

Maria Konnikova
Maria Konnikova

A Russian-American science writer and psychologist-turned professional poker player.

  • Project Management
  • Hiring
  • Job Seeking
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