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What kind of agencies should marketers be looking for to help them win in the post-digital world? Not ‘digital’ agencies. Not ‘creative’ agencies. Not networks or boutiques or platform-agnostic transmedia nodes. Just smart people who get it and who care about doing great work that makes a difference, regardless of medium. Crap advertising already spams…
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Design is not primarily supposed to entertain or to be nice or to aesthetically please. It’s supposed to perform. –Oliver Reichenstein
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Design isn’t about eye-candy. It’s about problem-solving. If your “design” isn’t solving quantifiable issues, then it isn’t design: it’s “decoration.” – Anonymous
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Conventional guidelines for good writing hold true for the Web with one major exception. On the Web, you “write tight” using no unnecessary words or sentences. Use commonly accepted language and never simply throw information up and expect users to sort it out and make sense of it. – Wayne English (Web Content RX: A…
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“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep” -Scott Adams
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“Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures” – Harvey Pekar (writer of American Splendor)
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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…
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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…
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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
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The goal of interface design is to get rid of the interface. – Aza Raskin