“One of the ways that designers can challenge themselves to think about their work differently is to look outside of design to ways that other disciplines research, evaluate, and interpret their work.”
Source: Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“Design before development leads to dead ends.”
“Designers need to understand various perspectives that exist in the world—and to be able to speak many different “languages” in order to translate these ideas in meaningful ways.”
Source: Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“For designers to understand their work as part of a dialogue influences the design output in much more nuanced ways, and relieves the designer from the burden of needing to control every aspect of the experience.”
Source: Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice
“Many items the skunk had were of the highest quality including bathroom vanities and hand and paw washing areas constructed by Finland’s well-known designer, Helsinki.”
Source: A Dragon, A Pig, and a Rabbi Walk into a Bar...and other Rambunctious Bites
“We are UX designers, facilitating for the world, and we love to solve the problems through our craft.”
“Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.”
“Mindfulness, as we saw, is the awareness that arises from paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.”
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“For the very nature of the product designer's role in industry tends to militate against his effectiveness. He is schooled--and presumably motivated--to design things for people; but he is retained to design things for the market.”
Source: By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons