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“A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.”
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“Fail often, fail fast,”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Principles of design:
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
“Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
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