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
An user experience designer, writer and ethical design researcher based in Lisbon.
The impression, and not just the first one, is largely formed at the entry point, physical or attentional, to a system or environment. People do judge books by their covers and Internet sites by their first pages.
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
UX Design
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 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
At no point should your task require the user to hold more than seven items in their working memory at any moment.
George Armitage Miller
An American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science.
Laws of UX
Product Design
UX Design
Public kiosks run an unfortunate risk of being a disease vector, so your first pass should try for noncontact inputs like voice, proximity switches, or non-contact gestural inputs.
Alan Cooper
An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".