In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer. It’s interior decorating. It’s the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”
Steve Jobs, 1955–2011
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In most people’s vocabularies, design means veneer.
October 7, 201110:21am
Introduction to Design Studio Methodology | UX Magazine
August 24, 20114:51pm
It is hardly possible to overrate the value… of placing human beings in contact with persons dissimilar to themselves, with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar.
John Stewart Mill 1806–73
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If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw.
January 12, 20116:45pm
If you want to have a maximum effect on the design of a new engineering system, learn to draw. Engineers always wind up designing the vehicle to look like the initial artist’s concept.
via Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design.
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I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature
December 23, 20105:06pm
…I’m not just a font. I am a force of motherfucking nature and I will not rest until every uptight armchair typographer cock-hat like you is surrounded by my lovable, comic-book inspired, sans-serif badassery
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I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest
December 8, 201010:12am
I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?’ ‘No,’ said the priest, ‘not if you did not know.’ ‘Then why,’ asked the Eskimo earnestly, ‘did you tell me?’
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, 1974
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The trouble with having an open mind is that people will try to put things in it
June 2, 20103:17pm
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Terry Pratchet
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People divide into those who’d rather dine on a sandwich
May 17, 20107:51pm
People divide into those who’d rather dine on a sandwich but overnight in a great hotel, or have a sumptuous meal and sleep in a hostel.
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People who think that small things don’t matter
May 15, 20107:55am
People who think that small things don’t matter have never slept in a room with a mosquito.
Rob Stokes
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I don’t know the key to success
April 16, 20103:34pm
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody
Bill Cosby
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The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
March 27, 20108:29am
The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures
Ben Shneiderman