Just Simple

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep”

-Scott Adams

“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures”

- Harvey Pekar (writer of American Splendor)

Because sketches are faster, require less overhead, and by their nature are perceived to be less ‘done,’ they are better suited to the task-artifact cycle of design exploration. They should be considered an effective modeling process for designers to be able to conceive and predict the consequences of certain design arguments during the design ideation phase and subsequently leading to better design.

- Will Evans

We need more designers that understand the web and can push it forward. Design is no longer about applying the corporate color palette and making it look pretty. There’s a growing need for designers to take the lead in shaping the way we get information. Designers need to realize the role the Internet will play ten years from now, and trying to jump on it then will be much harder than starting now.

- Matias Corea

Taken from his Design Droplets Interview:

http://designdroplets.com/designer-qa/matias-corea-chief-designer-behance/

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn

Alvin Toffer

The goal of interface design is to get rid of the interface.

- Aza Raskin

A quick post, a change from my usual weekend post routine.

Some quotes on eduction from the view of a UX designer as seen through twitter:

When will our education system start producing thinkers; people with practical work & life skills; effective communication etc

It seems people only start learning what they need when they start careers, relationships, go through significant events. Some never learn.

These are problems I hear over and over again and I agree. Education needs rapid change, but we are a slow changing society.

“User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave – and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.”

-Jesse J. Garrett

“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”

- Charles Eames

“You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.” – Steve Jobs