These bits of inspiration are culled from my collective browsing throughout the semester. Many of us would be graduating soon, and might not be in the field of Interactive Media anymore, hence I hope that by consolidating these quotes into this little entry, it could help us reminisce our little UX experience this semester. Some are from famous interface designers, architects, authors, jazz greats, and more. Hope you will appreciate them as much as I do. Enjoy.
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“The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it’s the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.” – Kathy Sierra
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“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability – they should go hand in hand.”
-Donald Norman, 2003
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“Design is the easiest way to reenergize a product.” (Very true indeed)
-Fast Company, 2005
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“When people talk about innovation in this decade, they really mean design.”
-Bruce Nussbaum, 2005
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“The product is the brand. You build brand in our industry through the product and the experience.”
-Jim Wicks, Motorola, 2006
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“The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly – to develop strategies of seeing and showing.”
-Edward Tufte, 2005
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“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.” (Very true indeed)
-Steve Jobs, 1998
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“Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.”
-Douglas Martin, 1989
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“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”
-Ben Shneiderman, 2003
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“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” (Inspiration for our project: – Making Carparking simple)
-Charles Mingus
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“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
-Steve Jobs, 2003
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“Design is about humans creating great works that help or improve the lives of other humans, often in profound ways, and often in ways that are quite small and go unnoticed.”
- Garr Reynolds
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“We live in a world where the little things really do matter. Each encounter no matter how brief is a micro interaction which makes a deposit or withdrawal from our rational and emotional subconscious. The sum of these interactions and encounters adds up to how we feel about a particular product, brand or service. Little things. Feelings. They influence our everyday behaviors more than we realize.”
(Really true, peers did comment that our little UX gadgets (autocomplete & autocursor for textfields) really made UX more pleasant.)
- David Armano
