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Creativity & Ideas

Creativity & Ideas

Learn more If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great creative thoughts that will provide breakthroughs in how we do things. It is possible to avoid failure, to always be safe. But that is also the route to a dull, uninteresting life.

Donald A. Norman
Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

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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

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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

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Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

Nir Eyal
Nir Eyal

Author of books on technology, psychology and business whose writings appear in the Harvard Business Review, The Atlantic, TechCrunch, and Psychology Today.

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The right idea is often the opposite of the obvious.

Alex F. Osborn
Alex F. Osborn

An American advertising executive and the author of the creativity technique named brainstorming.

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Just as the sound of a tree crashing in the forest is unheard if nobody is there to hear it, so creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.

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Quotesthetics
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There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely, but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.

Mark Twain
Mark Twain

Entrepreneur, publisher, lecturer, and the father of American literature and the greatest humorist the United States has produced.

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If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an “information architect” and only use Helvetica.

David Carson
David Carson

An American graphic designer and surfer, best known for his innovative magazine design (Ray Gun), and use of experimental typography.

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