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#1
“We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
―
Terry Gilliam
tags:
art
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humor
19 likes
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#2
“Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.”
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Robert Bringhurst,
The Elements of Typographic Style
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48 likes
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#3
“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
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Joe Sparano
tags:
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#4
“Design cannot rescue failed content.”
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Edward R. Tufte
tags:
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64 likes
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#5
“The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.”
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Massimo Vignelli
tags:
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62 likes
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#6
“Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.”
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Jared Spool,
Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide
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web-design
12 likes
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#7
“A bad UI is like an elephant in a room of blind people.”
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Vineet Raj Kapoor
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#8
“Good design makes people feel good.”
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Mario Maruffi
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#9
“In the user problem
lies design opportunity”
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Mario Maruffi
tags:
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#10
“Users will never forget how your product or service made them feel.”
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Mario Maruffi
tags:
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#11
“Art is self-centered
Design is user-centered”
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Mario Maruffi
tags:
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#12
“UI: Perfection is achieved where there is nothing left to take away”
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
tags:
user-experience
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#13
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
―
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Airman's Odyssey
tags:
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exupery
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perfection
1180 likes
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#14
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
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Steve Jobs
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life-lessons
699 likes
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#15
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
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John Maeda,
The Laws of Simplicity
236 likes
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#16
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
―
Paul Rand
tags:
design
145 likes
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#17
“Everything is design. Everything!”
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Paul Rand
tags:
design
85 likes
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#18
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
―
steve jobs
tags:
design
84 likes
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#19
“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
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Massimo Vignelli
tags:
design
58 likes
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#20
“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.”
―
Tate Linden
tags:
design
20 likes
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#21
“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
―
Elon Musk
tags:
design
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29 likes
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#22
“Art is life. Design is emotion. Craft is the expression of humanity.”
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Cesare Giovanelli
tags:
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emotion
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humanity
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life
2 likes
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#23
“In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.” — Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When”
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Marc Stickdorn,
This is Service Design Thinking: Basics - Tools - Cases
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#24
“Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”
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Paul Rand
55 likes
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#25
“Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.”
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Paul Rand
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#26
“Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.”
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Aza Raskin
tags:
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10 likes
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#27
“Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
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Jeffrey Zeldman
tags:
design
7 likes
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