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UX Design

The process of supporting user behaviour through usability, usefulness, and desirability provided in the interaction with a product.

UX Design

The process of supporting user behaviour through usability, usefulness, and desirability provided in the interaction with a product.

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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
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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A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

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.

  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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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
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 & Arts
  • Design Principles
  • Industrial Design
  • UX Design
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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

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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Aesthetics
  • Laws of UX
  • The Value of Design
  • UX Design
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When you’re designing Web pages, it’s probably a good idea to assume that everything is visual noise until proven otherwise.

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.

  • Design & Arts
  • Website Development
  • Noise & Distraction
  • UX Design
  • Web Design
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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
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
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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
Jakob Nielsen

A former Sun Microsystems Engineer and "The world's leading expert on Web usability" (www.useit.com).

  • Design & Arts
  • Website Development
  • UX Design
  • White Space
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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
William Lidwell

The Director of Design at Stuff Creators Design in Houston and author of the best-selling design book, Universal Principles of Design.

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  • Design Principles
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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
George Armitage Miller

An American psychologist who was one of the founders of cognitive psychology, and more broadly, of cognitive science.

  • Design & Arts
  • Laws of UX
  • Product Design
  • UX Design
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People are more tolerant of minor usability issues when the design of a product or service is aesthetically pleasing.

Jon Yablonski
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.

  • Design & Arts
  • Aesthetics
  • Laws of UX
  • The Value of Design
  • UX Design
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