Philippe Starck
French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles.
- Design & Arts
- Product Design
- Usability
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Alan Cooper
An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".
- Design & Arts
- Seeking Solutions
- Usability
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The push for simplicity has a purpose. Stripping away non-essential features makes products easier for people to learn from the start and easier to use over time.
Ken Kocienda
Software engineer and designer who worked for Apple for over fifteen years. Ken worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.
- Design & Arts
- Product Design
- Simplicity
- Usability
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When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. On the other hand, if people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient — or just happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.
Henry Dreyfuss
An American industrial engineer, renowned for designing and improving the usability of consumer products such as Hoover vacuum cleaner or the tabletop telephone.
- Design & Arts
- Design Thinking
- Industrial Design
- Usability
- UX Design
Loading...Learn more Computer literacy is really an euphemism for forcing human beings to stretch their thinking to understand the inner workings of application logic, rather than having software-enabled products stretch to meet people’s usual ways of thinking.
Alan Cooper
An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".
- Design & Arts
- Usability
Loading...Learn more 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".
- Design & Arts
- Tips & Advice
- Usability
- UX Design
- UX Elements
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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself.
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.
- Design & Arts
- Testing
- Usability
- 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
A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.
- Design & Arts
- Website Development
- Information Architecture
- Usability
- UX Design
- Web Design
Loading...Learn more Infinite scrolling should never be employed for interfaces in which users need to get to the end of the list quickly, or need to return to a particular list item after navigating elsewhere.
Alan Cooper
An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".
- Design & Arts
- Tips & Advice
- Usability
- UX Design
- UX Elements
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Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to the bare minimum.
Steve Krug
A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.
- Design & Arts
- UI Design
- Usability
- UX Design
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