Good design
Yanis Markin and
Good design
If Apple was a democracy (aka customers don’t know what they want. or greatness requires a certain degree of dictatorship)
ditch the process from Jenny Wen who designed Figjam
Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.
-Virginia Postrel, The Substance of Style: How the Rise of Aesthetic Value is
... See moreIt doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Behaviors/dynamics can be discussed and analyzed as discrete "objects" under your control. Design discussions should often be taking place at the level of the dynamic rather than the level of the functionality. Identify what behavior you want to change first, then piece together the necessary functionality that you believe will enable that... See more
What can software product designers learn from game designers?
fascinating insights on designing products from the previous head of design at Quora. think of the dynamic, not the functionality, then piece together the necessary functionality.
But what makes an interface successful? Beyond speed of performance, cohesive information sequences and anticipation of the human context and need, designing an experience that hopes to create feeling can only be done with feeling. The difference between good and bad becomes a matter of who can bring to bear greater focus and knowhow within the... See more
The matter of taste — Callum Flack Design & Development
"Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris