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  • #1
    “We suffered for our art. You have to suffer for our art as well!”
    Terry Gilliam
    tags: art, humor

  • #2
    Robert Bringhurst
    “Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.”
    Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style

  • #3
    “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
    Joe Sparano

  • #4
    Edward R. Tufte
    “Design cannot rescue failed content.”
    Edward R. Tufte

  • #5
    “The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.”
    Massimo Vignelli

  • #6
    “Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.”
    Jared Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer's Guide

  • #7
    “A bad UI is like an elephant in a room of blind people.”
    Vineet Raj Kapoor

  • #8
    “Good design makes people feel good.”
    Mario Maruffi

  • #9
    “In the user problem
    lies design opportunity”
    Mario Maruffi

  • #10
    “Users will never forget how your product or service made them feel.”
    Mario Maruffi

  • #11
    “Art is self-centered
    Design is user-centered”
    Mario Maruffi

  • #12
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “UI: Perfection is achieved where there is nothing left to take away”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #13
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “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

  • #14
    Steve Jobs
    “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.”
    Steve Jobs

  • #15
    John Maeda
    “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
    John Maeda, The Laws of Simplicity

  • #16
    Paul Rand
    “Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
    Paul Rand

  • #17
    Paul Rand
    “Everything is design. Everything!”
    Paul Rand

  • #18
    Steve Jobs
    “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
    steve jobs

  • #19
    “If you can design one thing, you can design everything.”
    Massimo Vignelli

  • #20
    “Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.”
    Tate Linden

  • #21
    “Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
    Elon Musk

  • #22
    “Art is life. Design is emotion. Craft is the expression of humanity.”
    Cesare Giovanelli

  • #23
    “In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.” — Erik Spiekermann, graphic designer When”
    Marc Stickdorn, This is Service Design Thinking: Basics - Tools - Cases

  • #24
    Paul Rand
    “Don't try to be original; just try to be good.”
    Paul Rand

  • #25
    Paul Rand
    “Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.”
    Paul Rand

  • #26
    “Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.”
    Aza Raskin

  • #27
    Jeffrey Zeldman
    “Content precedes design. Design in advance of content is not design, it’s decoration.”
    Jeffrey Zeldman
    tags: design



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