Good design
Yanis Markin and
Good design
love this distinction between levels of design. truly higher level designs are designing solutions instead of features, outcomes instead of products. there's no function more important than this.
Despite hundreds of features, the navigation bar at the bottom of the WeChat screen is four icons: Chat, Contacts, Discover, Me. Zhang: “I told the team to establish a rule that WeChat shall always have a four-icon bar, and never add anything to it.”
Patricia Mou • vol.33: 15 Mindful Product Principles from Allen Zhang, Father of WeChat
The opposite of more is not less. If we do it right, the opposite of more is better.
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
Callum Flack • The matter of taste — Callum Flack Design & Development
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
Don Norman • The Design Of Everyday Things
Design books for non-designers
stripe.press
We learned the hard way that new products are hard enough to figure out, and we should make as many things as familiar as possible. Again, life and new products are hard enough. When you can use a familiar term instead of being original, do so. Never opt for a solution that is more creative but less effective.
Scott Belsky • Crafting The First Mile Of Product
Designed by Apple in California
As a practical matter, I think it's easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty. Most of the people who've made beautiful things seem to have done it by fixing something that they thought ugly. Great work usually seems to happen because someone sees something and thinks,
I could do better than that.
I could do better than that.