But there’s a paradox at the heart of design that’s rarely discussed: the discipline that most profoundly determines how lasting and inspiring a work of design can be is a designer’s ability to look away — not just from their own work, but from other solutions, other possibilities, other designers’ takes on similar problems.
Good Design Comes from Looking, Great Design Comes from Looking Away - Christopher Butler
We need design—not just as a service to make our product beautiful—but to discover the right product.
Marty Cagan • INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
have no training in design, I have only ideas and opinions.
My design approach is rooted in two principals:
1. Things that make sense please me.
2. Things that are beautiful please me.
Sometimes those are the same thing, and sometimes they are not (which can be a source of great displeasure).
Context, problem-solving, gestures, pleasure—these topic... See more
My design approach is rooted in two principals:
1. Things that make sense please me.
2. Things that are beautiful please me.
Sometimes those are the same thing, and sometimes they are not (which can be a source of great displeasure).
Context, problem-solving, gestures, pleasure—these topic... See more
It improves your life now. It improves your life for years. It’s simple or rewarding to learn. It works reliably and has lasting value. It’s easy to repair and upgrade. It’s safe for people and for the environment.
Scott Berkun • How Design Makes the World
Bernard was a fundamentally serious person. During my first face-to-face tutorial with him he said, “When you design something, everything about it has to have a purpose. There has to be a reason.” I looked around at the best designs of the time like Issigonis’s Mini, the new architecture of Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, and at the radical desi
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