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Design Quotes by Jakob Nielsen
- A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.
- Users are not designers.
- Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.
- A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.
- Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.
- The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing…
- Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a bulky design by…
- If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer…
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- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
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- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks