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“American culture is no longer created by the people... A free, authentic life is no longer possible in AmericaTM today. We are being manipulated in the most insidious way. Our emotions, personalities and core values are under siege from media and cultural forces too complex to decode. A continuous product message has woven itself into the very fabric of our existence. Most North Americans now live designer lives-sleep, eat, sit in car, work, shop, watch TV, sleep again. I doubt there's more than a handful of free, spontaneous minutes anywhere in that cycle. We ourselves have been branded.”

“Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.”

“Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.”

People Needs States Views Emotion Design Emotional Products Personality Intention Horrible Designer Users Signals Website Instill

Author:Donald A. Norman

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“But one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.”

Faces Products Designer Tails

Author:Jonathan Ive

“There are not many designers who are truly creative and literate. Most are self-indulgent, illiterate, fashion-mongering, service people trying to bridge a message between a product and an audience.”

People Trying Self Audience Creative Fashion Products Messages Bridges Designer Illiterate Self Indulgent

Author:Ivan Chermayeff

“No manufacturer, from General Motors to the Little Lulu Novelty Company, would think of putting a product on the market without benefit of a designer.”

Thinking Littles Company Products Benefits Designer Novelty Motor General Motors

Book:Never Leave Well Enough Alone

Source: Never Leave Well Enough Alone

“First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.”

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Author:Nate Berkus

“If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.”

Ifs May Effort Too Much Products Asking Investing Designer Etc Users Time Effort

Author:Nir Eyal

“When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product.”

People May Social Growth Products Messages Tricks Designer Frustration Expenses Users Initials Goodwill Inviting Social Network

Book:Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Source: Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.”

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Author:Khoi Vinh

“We get better product when the focus is on the fans and the artists - all artists; musical artists; singers, the graphic designers, the painters, the DJs, I mean everybody, the writers. We can't allow ourselves to feel as if we're not important in the equation when we are everything!”

Ifs Feels Mean Important Artist Focus Fans Products Musical Singers Painter Get Better Designer Equations Graphic Djs Graphic Designer

Author:David Banner