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To settle for second best is a violation of the rules of simplicity, and it plants the seeds for disappointment, extra work, and more meetings. Most disturbing, it puts you in the worst possible business position: having to defend an idea you never believed in.

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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Excellence
  • Perfectionism
  • Simplicity
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Connecting with no agenda, no self-interest; just reaching out to invest in another person—that is networking.

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.

  • Other
  • Project Management
  • Networking
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A door may afford pulling or pushing, depending on which way it opens. When a person can see in advance whether to pull or push the door to open it, that’s a good user interface.

Jakob Nielsen
Jakob Nielsen

A former Sun Microsystems Engineer and "The world's leading expert on Web usability" (www.useit.com).

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • UI Design
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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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UX research is like kitchen work: the better you prep, the faster and cleaner the work goes.

Erika Hall
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.

  • UX Design
  • Metaphors
  • Project Management
  • UX Research
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Simplicity can be many things, but it’s not your ticket to a life of leisure.

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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Simplicity
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

John Cage
John Cage

An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.

  • Design & Arts
  • Creativity
  • Curiosity
  • Inspiration
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A fundamental part of creative process is making mistakes together. There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Collective Thinking
  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Making Mistakes
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If you can’t measure something, you probably can’t achieve or manage it simply because you’ll never know if you’ve reached it.

Joe Natoli
Joe Natoli

UX designer who writes books, runs podcast and teaches public about designing and building great products that deliver meaningful user experience (UX).

  • Design & Arts
  • Project Management
  • Analytics
  • UX Design
  • UX Research
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It’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent.

John Cleese
John Cleese

An English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. A co-founder of the comedy troupe Monty Python.

  • Project Management
  • Being Disciplined
  • Being Organised
  • Focus
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