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The technologies we use to try to “get on top of everything” always fail us, in the end, because they increase the size of the “everything” of which we’re trying to get on top.

Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman

British journalist and writer, the author of Four Thousand Weeks, the book about making the most of our radically finite lives.

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If people were brutally honest in their emails, the time we spend sorting through our in-boxes would surely decrease by half.

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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  • Project Management
  • Clarity
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  • Emails & Messages
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If I had an hour to solve a problem I’d spend 55 minutes thinking about the problem and five minutes thinking about solutions.

Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

A German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics.

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Learn more Usability’s strength is in identifying problems, while design’s strength is in identifying solutions.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

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  • Seeking Solutions
  • Usability
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Users are strongly influenced by the aesthetics of any given interface, even when they try to evaluate the underlying functionality of the system.

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.

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  • Aesthetics
  • Laws of UX
  • The Value of Design
  • UX Design
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It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

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

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  • Website Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Usability
  • UX Design
  • Web Design
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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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Poorly written error messages can legitimately impact the health of our users by increasing their stress when errors occur. Make sure the voice and tone align with your brand and target personas, and avoid the use of jargon and technical language when possible.

Jennifer Aldrich
Jennifer Aldrich

A UX-obsessed product designer and writer whose work has appeared in publications such as Creative Bloq, UX Magazine, A List Apart and list goes on. She has spent the last 15 years working mostly for SaaS start-ups.

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Without contrast, you are dead.

Paul Rand
Paul Rand

An American art director and graphic designer, best known for his corporate logo designs (ABC, Enron, IBM, NeXT).

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  • Design Principles
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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.

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