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think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anus. to call someone an asshole is really bragging him up. ↗

— Mary Roach

#science #design

A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people their work entices to relocate ↗

— Carl Henegan

#design

It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. ↗

— Steve Krug

#web-design #design

The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. ↗

— Steve Krug

#designer #user-testing #web-design #design

If you want a great site, you’ve got to test. After you’ve worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can’t see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it. ↗

— Steve Krug

#user-experience #user-testing #web-design #design

And not just the right thing; it’s profoundly the right thing to do, because the one argument for accessibility that doesn’t get made nearly often enough is how extraordinarily better it makes some people’s lives. How many opportunities do we have to dramatically improve people’s lives just by doing our job a little better? ↗

— Steve Krug

#design #ethics #design

One thing that is exciting about fashion is the surprise element. People don't know what they want. They just know when they see it. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

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The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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Now, where do I bring this thing down?" I asked. There was a hesitation, then, "You don't. We didn't design it to return. It was a redundancy we had no need for. Too costly, in terms of resources." "So what do I do? I just saved the Earth. And now I suffocate out here? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

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Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas. ↗

— David Consuegra

#thought #design