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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

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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

Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum. ↗

— Steve Krug

#usability #design

Once in a while a new government initiates a program to put power to better use, but its success or failure never really proves anything. In science, experiments are designed, checked, altered, repeated-- but not in politics... We have no real cumulative knowledge. History tells us nothing. That's the tragedy of a political reformer. ↗

— B.F. Skinner

#politics #science #design

Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled. ↗

— Paul Davies

#biology #chemical-evolution #darwinism #evolution #id

Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better. ↗

— Jeremy Keith

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