As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.
Steve KrugTag: design web-design usability
Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.
Tag: design web-design usability designers
The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.
Steve KrugTag: design web-design designer user-testing
And not just the right thing; it’s profoundly the right thing to do, because the one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people’s lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job a little better?
Steve KrugTag: ethics design accessibility
It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.
Hillman CurtisTag: art success inspiration self design envy psyche
For good or for bad, we define ourselves in many ways by the gadgets we use and the clothes we wear. We don't want to surround ourselves with cheap products. Nobody really aspires to that. We also don't want to pay for a diamond-encrusted ereader. We don't need bling; we just need to feel like the design speaks to us.
Jason MerkoskiTag: technology design
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
David CarsonTag: humor design rock prophecy rock-n-roll graphic-design
Never mistake legibility for communication.
David CarsonTag: communication language design graphic-design
For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the resolution of demanding technical or natural predicament. Thus we call the Shaker staircase in Pleasant Hill elegant because we know--without ever having constructed one ourselves--that a staircase is a site complexity, and that combinations of treads, risers and banisters rarely approach the sober intelligibility of the Sharkers' work. We deem a modern Swiss house elegant because we not how seamlessly its windows have been joined to their concrete walls, and how neatly the usual clutter of construction has been resolved away. We admire starkly simple works that we intuit would, without immense effort, have appeared very complicated. (p 209)
Alain de BottonTag: complexity elegance simplicity intuition architecture design complicated construction
...Because beauty is typically the result of a few qualities working in concert, it can take more to guarantee the appeal of a bridge or a house than strength alone. (p 205)
Alain de BottonTag: beauty house design bridge
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