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“The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.”

Quote by Richard Saul Wurman

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Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman is a renowned architect, born on March 26, 1935. His career spans across various fields including urban planning, architectural design, and education. Wurman is known for his innovative design philosophy and in-depth research on information architecture. more

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“If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand.' It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.”

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“You only understand information relative to what you already understand.”

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Book:Information Anxiety 2

Source: Information Anxiety 2

“My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.”

“When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always – do it anyway.”

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“What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?”

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“A weekday edition of The New York Times contains more information than the average person was likely to come across in a lifetime in seventeenth-century England”

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“For they can conquer who believe they can.”

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Author:John Dryden

“Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding.”

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“More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.”

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Author:Ben Shneiderman

“The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.”

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Book:Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

Source: Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies