Design is the Intermediary Between Information and Understanding
Design helps in understanding complex information. The design allows you to present information in a way that is easy to understand for users.
16 UX Quotes You Need to Read as a UX Designer
Quotes are the best source of inspiration and learning. While working on UX design, UX quotes act the similar way for UX designers. They get inspiration and stay motivated by going through the related quotes again and again.
Listen to Your Customers, Not Your Competitors
“Listen to your customers, not your competitors.” — Joel Spolsky It is the fundamental requirement of business and design to focus on your customers’ needs rather than trying to copy your competitors. We often compare our progress and achievements with …
Simplicity in UX Design: Eliminate the Unnecessary
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” — Hans Hofmann In today’s busy life, it is important to identify the necessary and unnecessary to find time for things that matter. Removing the …
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Trying And Failing in UX Design: It’s a Good Thing
“There’s no learning without trying lots of ideas and failing lots of times.” — Jony Ive This insightful quote reflects a fundamental truth about creativity, innovation, and growth. We often view failure with fear in our daily lives, considering it …
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The Power of White Space in UX Design
“In a world where everybody screams, silence is noticeable. White space provides the silence.” — Massimo Vignelli In our everyday lives, we face a lot of distractions and interruptions. Some of these are real sounds we hear, like traffic or …
Think of a Thousand Ideas to Get the Best One
“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” — Alfred Nobel The human brain is always filled with thoughts. According to research, an average person has approximately 60,000 thoughts per day. …
What is the Incremental Design Approach?
“Designers want to solve the whole puzzle and find a system; engineers want to build quickly and incrementally. Incremental improvements to a product are important, but they need to be led by a clear vision. Vision needs to be tied …
20 Inspiring UX Quotes You Should Learn as a UX Designer
Quotes are a great source of inspiration and learning. While working on UX design, UX quotes act similarly for UX designers. They get inspiration and stay motivated by going through the related quotes. I am passionate about collecting and reading …
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Prototype as if you are Right, Listen as if you are Wrong
Prototyping is an iterative way of designing the draft version of your product that helps to validate your ideas without writing a single line of code.
A Consistent Experience is a Better Experience
Consistency is a key principle of user experience (UX) design. A usable and user-friendly design is based on consistent experience.
Good Design – A Way to Differentiate From Competitors
“Good design is the most important way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors.” — Yun Jong Yong
Why Do You Need to Understand Your Users?
“People ignore design that ignores people.” — Frank Chimero
The core principle of user experience is to keep the user first in your design process. A product that satisfies the needs of its users is a successful product and the users love to work on it.
Importance of Context in Design
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context—a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.” — Eero Saarinen This quote focuses on a …
Benefits of the Incremental Design Approach
“Designers are afraid of incremental design but to launch faster you need an incremental vision.”— Katie Dill An incremental vision allows you to deliver the output, in our case design, in small increments to your customer.
If you can design one thing, you can design everything
“If you can design one thing, you can design everything.” — Massimo Vignelli That’s true. When you are designing an experience, you are following a process. That process is the guideline for you to complete the design. When you start designing, you get …
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More Options, More Problems
“Rule of thumb for UX: More options more problems.” — Scott Belsky Hick’s law states that the more options available for the users, the longer time it will take for them to make a decision.
Design is Everywhere, so Take Inspiration from Your Surroundings
“Design is everywhere. From the dress you’re wearing to the smartphone you’re holding, it’s design.”— Samadara Ginige That’s very true! Design is everywhere. Design is not limited to the digital world, instead, everything we use in our daily lives is …
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Look at Usual Things With Unusual Eyes
“Look at usual things with unusual eyes.”–Vico Magistretti Being a UX designer, you must have an eye for unusually looking at things. Just look at the text editor you are using right now. Can you feel that a few things …
Do Not Seek Praise, Seek Criticism
“Do not seek praise, seek criticism.”–Paul Arden Everyone loves to be praised for his or her good work. It feels really good when someone appreciates you, your work, or your actions.
It may have already been “said”, but not by ME!
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” — André Gide This quote can be well understood in terms of UX design concepts. Just tell me, how many times …
User Testing at Initial Design Stages
“Testing with one user early in the project is better than testing with 50 near the end.” — Steve Krug User testing helps immensely to improve your design decisions. Its importance cannot be neglected in the design process. The design process that …
Usability: A Key Part of Design Process
“Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a layer of peanut butter.” — Clayton H Lewis What is usability? Usability is the ease of use by which users can work on a product …
Strive for Simplicity in UX Design
“There’s a big difference between making a simple product & making a product simple.”— Des Traynor A simple product provides a few common and simple features. A product created for a limited scope and providing a set of functionality within …
A User Interface is Like a Joke – Make i Understandable
“A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good”. — Martin Leblanc When someone tells you a joke, they are expecting a laugh in response. And it feels odd if you don’t understand the joke …
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Design for Humans and Not for Computers
“When I design, I work very hard to make the interface experience feel like there’s a human on the other end, not a computer. “— Aarron Walter A design should be created to fulfill its users’ needs. The first step of …
Consistency – A Key Design Principle
“Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen.”— Jakob Nielsen Consistency is the key principle of UX design. A usable and user-friendly design always provides …
Diversity of People Equals Diversity of Ideas
“None of us is as smart as all of us. Keeping your ideas to yourself is detrimental. Diversity of people equals diversity of ideas.” — Denise Jacobs Sometimes people feel reluctant to share their ideas with others as they are afraid of …
A Prototype Is Worth 1000 Meetings
“If a picture is worth 1000 words, a prototype is worth 1000 meetings.” – Tom & David Kelley The idiom “A picture is worth a thousand words” refers to the notion that a complex idea can be conveyed with …
Make Design Decisions Along with Your Customer
“I get very uncomfortable when someone makes a design decision without customer contact.” – Dan Ritzenthaler Make your customer part of your design process. Meet them, get requirements from them, and involve them in your discussions, ideas, and decisions. This …