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Inspiration and knowledge for me as a designer
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How you choose to classify and organize things reflects your intent, but it can also reflect your worldview, culture, experience, or privilege. Those same choices affect how people using your taxonomy understand what you share with them.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
When you see the world through the eyes of other people, you can spot weaknesses and opportunities for improvement. Don't hide from other stakeholders or wait until the end of the project to talk to users.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody
All of sudden, we weren’t just designing something visual, but we needed to understand human behaviour, to see ourselves in other people’s contexts ( don’t get me started on our empathy phase!!! ), to learn how the decisions we made could affect a company’s bottom line, etc.
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more
But along the way, we lost something. The actual work we were producing.... See more
Jenny Wen • Jenny Wen — Don't trust the (design) process
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