“Learning should take place when it is needed, when the learner is interested, not according to some arbitrary, fixed schedule”
― Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
― Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) 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
“Cognition attempts to make sense of the world: emotion assigns value.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“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
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
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