"One reason the young sometimes succeed where the old fail is that they don’t realize how incompetent they are."
"If numbers are your strategy to win at this thing, you’ve already lost."
"You can talk all you want, but if your client is not understanding you, they will look for a designer who will."
"I’m certainly no fan of the production line approach. Project manager passes request to developer; developer passes framework to designer; designer colours it in etc. Everyone working within a niche skillset on a need-to-know basis. No."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
Albert Einstein
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."
Winston Churchill
"This paper by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read."
Winston Churchill
"Turn strangers into friends.
Turn friends into customers.
And then… do the most important job:
Turn your customers into salespeople"
Seth Godin, Small is the New Big
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"Very rarely, if ever, is design work accepted in the first pass, and sometimes you can only hope to be ‘wrong in the right direction.’"
Dan Brown, Communicating Design
"The really great person will keep on going and find the key, underlying principle and problem. And come up with a beautiful elegant solution that works."
Steve Jobs, The Perfect Thing
"Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration."
"Take as much risk as you can as early as you can. Put yourselves in positions where there’s a really good chance that you’ll fail. And learn, learn, learn."
"If color is a language, Pantone is the Oxford English Dictionary"
"… you’ve got to either be different… or cheaper. You will fail if you try to do both—or neither."
Seth Godin, Small is the New Big
