Good design
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Good design
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
Ambiguity in visual design ultimately leads to a greater variety of functions than designs that are functionally fixed.
Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"
Time Flies – A game about our limited time in this world.
timeflies.buzz
It 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
The more senior the designer, the more abstract the problem they should be solving.
To break it down more tangibly, let’s look at some examples of levels and appropriate responsibilities:
Designer Lvl 1: Design a form that lets people edit their profile. Pretty scoped—assumes there is a profile, and that the solution takes the shape of a form.
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To break it down more tangibly, let’s look at some examples of levels and appropriate responsibilities:
Designer Lvl 1: Design a form that lets people edit their profile. Pretty scoped—assumes there is a profile, and that the solution takes the shape of a form.
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Julie Zhuo • How to Work with Designers
John Cleese on Creativity In Management
youtu.beJanuary 23, 1991
When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the
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