An aesthetically pleasing design creates a positive response in people’s brains and leads them to believe the design actually works better.
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.
Aesthetics
Laws of UX
The Value of Design
UX Design
We know screen real estate is limited, and attempting to cram too much information on a page often does more harm than good.
Jakob Nielsen
A former Sun Microsystems Engineer and "The world's leading expert on Web usability" (www.useit.com).
UX Design
White Space
Most accidents are thought to be caused by what is referred to as human error, yet most of them are actually due to design errors rather than errors of human operation.
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 Principles
Industrial Design
UX Design
What users say they want is rarely the solution that would best solve their problems. User requests are symptoms of unmet goals and needs, not the solutions.
Doug Collins
UX designer, writer speaker, mentor within the UX community and the founder and leader of The NUXers, a Denver-based group aimed at giving new UX professionals the skills they need to be successful in the business world.