#desi

The more you watch users carefully and listen to them articulate their intentions, motivations, and thought processes, the more you realize that their individual reactions to Web pages are based on so many variables that attempts to describe users in terms of one-dimensional likes and dislikes are futile and counter-productive. Good design, on the other hand, takes this complexity into account. ↗

— Steve Krug

#usability #user-centered-design #user-experience #users #design

God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#cancer #divorce #dying #god #grief

Systems are complex, so controlling an attack and achieving a desired level of damage may be harder than using physical weapons. ↗

— Dorothy Denning

#attack #complex #controlling #damage #desired

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#about #controlled #designs #fantasy #half

I don't consider myself a fashion designer. ↗

— Manolo Blahnik

#designer #fashion #fashion designer #i #myself

Instead of hunting and gathering, instead of farming and harvesting in the area where we live, we are flying God’s fruits and vegetables around the planet, not eating foods designed for our terrain and climate. We are distributing, selling and consuming “fresh foods” (or so the package says) days and weeks after they have been harvested. ↗

— Celso Cukierkorn

#design

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster! ↗

— Denis Diderot

#attempt #complete #desire #destruction #end

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#desirable #make #music #people

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#always #beautiful #big #bother #constantly

Better murder an infant in its cradle than nurse an unacted desire. ↗

— William Blake

#cradle #desire #infant #murder #nurse