Quotes

Quotes

Jony Ive on Being Better
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It is very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

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  • Being Better
  • Creativity
  • Industrial Design
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Invest in others before you ask them to invest in you. It is harder to make a withdrawal if you haven’t been making regular deposits.

Meridith Elliott Powel
Meridith Elliott Powel

One of the Top 15 Business Growth Experts to watch by Currency Fair. An award winning author, keynote speaker and business strategist.

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  • Project Management
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  • Networking
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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.

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!

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  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Product Design
  • Storytelling
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Choosing a typeface is an opportunity for your website, app or digital product to show personality, be memorable and stand out among its competition. And if you’re just using Open Sans, or other overly popular typeface, you’re missing out on that.

Oliver Schöndorfer
Oliver Schöndorfer

Freelance visual designer, speaker and expert on web typography.

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  • Typography
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The main value driver in the future economy will be user experience and I’m very confident in the future of the UX profession — what we’ve seen so far is nothing compared with what’s to come.

Tania Vieira
Tania Vieira

An user experience designer, writer and ethical design researcher based in Lisbon.

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  • Future Trends
  • UX Design
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Our goal isn’t to make money. This may sound a little flippant, but it’s the truth. Our goal and what gets us excited is to try to make great products. We trust that if we are successful people will like them, and if we are operationally competent we will make revenue, but we are very clear about our goal.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Design Thinking
  • Money
  • Motivation
  • Product Design
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When we see something that is different than we expect we are forced to develop a new relationship with it, one that asks to question “that which we think we know” or “that which we see”.

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
  • Curiosity
  • Inspiration
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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. 

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  • Consistency
  • Grids & Layouts
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MVP Iterative Process
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The goal of the minimal viable product (MVP) is to begin the process, not end it.

Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki

American marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984.

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  • UX Design
  • Iteration
  • Iterative Process
  • Minimal Viable Product
  • Product Development
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The easiest way to screw up a project is to give it too much time.

Ken Segall
Ken Segall

Author and advertising creative director. Specializing in technology marketing, Segall was Steve Jobs' agency creative director for 12 years working for NeXT and Apple, and also for Dell, Intel and IBM.

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  • Strategy & Planning
  • Time Management
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