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Smuckers
  • Marketing & Advertising
If your name is bad, change the name or make fun of it

If your name is bad, change the name or make fun of it.

“With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” Most companies, especially family companies, would never make fun of their own name. Yet the Smucker family did, which is one reason why Smucker’s is the No.1 brand of jams and jellies. If your name is bad, you have two choices: change the name or make fun of it.

Source: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (Book) by Al Ries Jack Trout

  • Branding
  • Product Naming
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  • Marketing & Advertising
Marketing is the manipulation of perceptions

Marketing is a manipulation of perceptions

It’s an illusion. There is no objective reality. There are no facts. There are no best products. All that exists in the world of marketing are perceptions in the minds of the customer or prospect. The perception is the reality. Everything else is an illusion. Marketing is a manipulation of those perceptions.

Source: The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing (Book) by Al Ries Jack Trout

  • Perception
  • Psychology
  • Storytelling
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  • Design & Arts
It’s no secret that inspiration has a will of its own

It’s no secret that inspiration has a will of its own.

It always seems to hit us at the most awkward possible time, often right when we’re in the middle of something. We must be willing to surrender to inspiration when it comes calling. That might mean dropping what we’re doing and changing plans at the last minute.

Source: Do Design: Why Beauty is Key to Everything (Book) by Alan Moore

  • Creativity & Ideas
  • Inspiration
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  • Design & Arts
The level of control and the experience level of the people using the system

The level of control provided by a system should be related to the proficiency and experience levels of the people using the system

Since accommodating multiple methods increases the complexity of the system, the number of methods for any given task should be limited to two—one for beginners, and one for experts.

Source: Universal Principles of Design (Book) by William Lidwell Kritina Holden

  • Design Principles
  • UI Design
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  • Design & Arts
Design Principles – Constrains simplify usability and minimize errors

Use constraints to improve the clarity, usability and intuitiveness of your design

Constrains, as methods of limiting the actions that can be performed on a system, simplify usability and minimize errors. For example, dimming or hiding options that are not available at a particular time effectively constrains the options that can be selected.

Proper application of constraints in this fashion makes designs easier to use and dramatically reduces the probability of error during interaction. Simply put; constrains simplify usability and minimize errors!

Source: Universal Principles of Design (Book) by William Lidwell Kritina Holden

  • Design Principles
  • UX Design
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  • Design & Arts
Prioritizing Web Usability – “Affordance” is whatever can be done to an object. –

“Affordance” was originally a psychology term used to define the possible actions between a person or animal and the world. Our colleague Donald A. Norman applied the term to the user-experience world in his classic book The Design of Everyday Things. Basically, in design an “affordance” is whatever can be done to an object.

Source: Prioritizing Web Usability (Book) by Jakob Nielsen Hoa Loranger

  • Design History
  • Design Principles
  • UX Design
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  • Design & Arts
  • Other
Barry Schwartz – People think more creatively and expansively when they are happy

All other things being equal, it’s better to be happy than not

Despite our romantic images of suffering geniuses who have enriched our civilization, creative by day and tormented by night, there is a growing body of evidence that people think more creatively and expansively when they’re happy than when they’re not.

Source: The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less (Book) by Barry Schwartz

  • Creativity
  • Mood & Sentiment
  • Psychology
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