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this is my personal scrapbook to collect quotes on design, interactivity and creativity. Petra Sell - design director at prophets
Mon May 7

design principles

  1. Start with needs*
  2. Do less
  3. Design with data
  4. Do the hard work to make it simple
  5. Iterate. Then iterate again.
  6. Build for inclusion
  7. Understand context
  8. Build digital services, not websites
  9. Be consistent, not uniform
  10. Make things open: it makes things better

“ Design-oriented organizations invest in thinking this stuff through. They put design at the heart of their company to guide innovation and to continually improve products, service and marketing. They recognize that a great design leads to differentiation, customer loyalty and higher profits.
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So this is a call to action for executives to recognize this new era and make the effort to transform even a mundane product or service into something more rewarding and more memorable. Try to assess each element of your service or product and better it—to see design not just as a marketing thing but as a genuine source of competitive advantage, customer and employee satisfaction and, lastly, a route to higher profits. Adam Swann is head of planning at gyro New York

(Source: forbes.com)
Tue Apr 24
“ We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no choice is a choice. If you’re not doing something about it, you’re doing something about it. Chris Guillebeau

(Source: http)
Tue Mar 13
“ The control which designers know in the print medium, and often desire in the web medium, is simply a function of the limitation of the printed page. We should embrace the fact that the web doesn’t have the same constraints, and design for this flexibility. John Allsopp

(Source: alistapart.com)
Mon Mar 12
“ Design is shrinking the gap between what a product does and why it exists.  (Pinterest’s Founding Designer)
Mon Mar 5
“ What works well and feels good will eventually start looking good. But not everything that looks good, feels good or works well. iA on twitter
Sat Feb 18
“ Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration. Jeffrey Zeldman.

(Source: uxmyths.com)
Thu Feb 16
“ And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented. Barack Obama (via andytlr)
Mon Jan 30
“ if everything is important, then nothing is important.

(Source: uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com)
Tue Jan 24
“ In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. Mary Poppins