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I love to be a graphic designer, but could we get rid of clients somehow please? ↗

— Erik Spiekermann

#design #design

the fundamental question Juvenile Court was designed to ask - What's the best way to deal with this individual kid? - is often lost in the process, replaced by a point system that opens the door, or locks it, depending on the qualities of the crime, not the child. ↗

— Edward Humes

#prison #design

Affectation of candour is common enough-one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. ↗

— Jane Austen

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All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

#affairs #been #court #crowns #designs

The Actor, noticing a closed bookshop, dismounted from the horse which he tied to a street lamp. He woke up the bookseller and bought a Spanish grammar and dictionary. He set out again across town marveling at the way that the words of the foreign language were freshly gathered fruits and not old and dry. They touched the senses marvelously, new like young beggars who accost you, not yet words but the every things they designate, happily running naked before being clothed again in abstraction. ↗

— Georges Limbour

#words #design

Most sites need to prevent breadth — many many pages that are organized cohesively. A site that presents a single webpage is unlikely to present sufficient depth of content to justify extensive SEO.” The SCO trick is to draw traffic with desirable content, and to ’seduce’ the traffic into portions of the site that may not directly have anything to do with the content — this is the ultimate goal of the SEO campaign. ↗

— Harold Davis

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Everyday people are not very good designers. ↗

— Donald Norman

#everyday #everyday people #good #people #very

A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it would actually be good for the environment? ↗

— Donald Norman

#after #been #big #could #degrade

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone. ↗

— Donald Norman

#better #design #disabilities #everyone #invariably

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apt #everyone #in my opinion #opinion #optimal