If a feature or product were legitimately easy the user would not be writing in to support about how stuck they are. Sure, some percentage of users will find questions to ask about any interface. But do you want to start the conversation by assuming the user falls into that percentage? You venture to learn much more if you assume the software is wrong, not the user.
Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.
If you find an element of your interface requires instructions, then you need to redesign it.
Sometimes the best way to prove your own value is to let a client play the field.
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
I believe that a good user interface is carefully targeted towards its audience, with the right mixture of simplicity, elegance and innovation.
I don’t think that all people read in the same way. Today, entire generations are growing up watching MTV and playing video games and it is safe to assume that these people have a high degree of visual sophistication. and are not easily discouraged by a lens straightforward or ambiguous typography. On the contrary, they are attracted and enticed to read something because of visual richness.
Read moreBe regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
Design is where science and art break even.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul, but executed with clinical coolness.