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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-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.

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)

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
Fri Jan 20

things to worry about

In 1933, renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald ended a letter to his 11-year-old daughter, Scottie, with a list of things to worry about, not worry about, and simply think about. It read as follows.

(Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Life in Letters; Image: F. Scott Fitzgerald with his daughter, Scottie, in 1924.)

Things to worry about:

Worry about courage

Worry about cleanliness

Worry about efficiency

Worry about horsemanship

Things not to worry about: 

Don’t worry about popular opinion

Don’t worry about dolls

Don’t worry about the past

Don’t worry about the future

Don’t worry about growing up

Don’t worry about anybody getting ahead of you

Don’t worry about triumph

Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault

Don’t worry about mosquitoes

Don’t worry about flies

Don’t worry about insects in general

Don’t worry about parents

Don’t worry about boys

Don’t worry about disappointments

Don’t worry about pleasures

Don’t worry about satisfactions

Things to think about: 

What am I really aiming at? How good am I really in comparison to my contemporaries in regard to:

(a) Scholarship

(b) Do I really understand about people and am I able to get along with them? 

(c) Am I trying to make my body a useful instrument or am I neglecting it? 

With dearest love,

Daddy

(Source: listsofnote.com)

Thu Jan 19
the difference between designers is revealed in the unique way each individual designer approaches content, not the content they generate Michael Rock

(Source: fab.com)

Mon Jan 9
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. Dr. Seuss  (via olalena)
If you ask me to write a song about the ocean, I’m stumped. But if you tell me to write a ballad about a woman in a red dress falling off her bar stool at three in the morning, I’m inspired. Stephen Sondheim

(Source: uxmag.com)