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Quotesthetics and Face-ism Ratio
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Irrespective of gender, people rate individuals in high face-ism images as being more intelligent, dominant, and ambitious than individuals in low face-ism images.

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
  • Marketing & Advertising
  • Design Principles
  • Perception
  • Psychology
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The best way to answer difficult questions is to avoid the need to ask them.

Ken Kocienda
Ken Kocienda

Software engineer and designer who worked for Apple for over fifteen years. Ken worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

  • Other
  • Project Management
  • Clarity
  • Communication
  • Simplicity
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People prefer simplicity. Given the option, any sane person will choose the simple path over one that’s more complicated.

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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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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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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Zaha Hadid Work
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There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid

A British Iraqi architect from Baghdad. The "Queen of the curve", who liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity

  • Architecture
  • Creativity
  • Creativity & Ideas
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Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.

Walter J. Doherty
Walter J. Doherty

Researcher at IBM Systems, famous for his paper on the human-computer interactions and the requirement for a computer response time to be 400 milliseconds or less.

  • UX Design
  • IxD
  • Laws of UX
  • Timing
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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?’

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Skills
  • Design Thinking
  • Product Design
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An interesting fact about innovation is that the biggest revelations don’t always come from deliberate discovery or sound scientific theory. Instead, they develop piecemeal over time through random chance, as well as trial and error.

Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley

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

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  • Innovation
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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.

  • Project Management
  • Strategy & Planning
  • Time Management
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