Quote by Donald A. Norman Download Open image ““adults forget how difficult that task was.”” — Donald A. Norman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Focusing on creating something helped me to forget everything else.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Learning to be an adult was learning that your best was rarely quite enough.” — Jennifer duBois Copy Share Image
“Children take joy in their work and sometimes as adults we forget that's something we should continue doing.” — Ashley Ormon Copy Share Image
“Children understand...things far better. Adults always make things so complicated.” — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
“We expend more effort in trying to forget memories than in trying to create them.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“Any difficult task seems easier if you break it down into manageable steps.” — Claire B. May Gordon S. May Copy Share Image
“Adults are good at pretending to have things figured out, but we rarely do.” — Toby Neighbors Copy Share Image
“The futility of the attempt was obvious; when you put in that much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory.” — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“People only talk about how wonderful youth is when they have forgotten how hard it was.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Adults: they were so unpredictable that nothing they did should have been able to surprise me anymore.” — Helen Grant Copy Share Image
“key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
