Arbitrary Quote by Donald A. Norman

Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.

— Tyra Banks

“Whenever you see hand-lettered signs pasted on doors, switches, or products, trying to explain how to work them, what to do and what not…

— Donald A. Norman

Maybe at some subconscious level, things are done to upset somebody - part of me continues to see no valid reason for many of…

— David Carson

Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

— Aza Raskin

On average, when you ask someone to perform a task on a site, they cannot do it. It's not their fault; it's the designer's…

— Jakob Nielsen

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

— Donald A. Norman

I am a thorn in the side of designers.

— Robin Givhan

I think it's the responsibility of a designer to try to break rules and barriers.

— Gianni Versace

Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

— Zeena Parkins

“Don’t worry about design, if you listen to your code a good design will appear...Listen to the technical people. If they are complaining about…

— Jason Fried

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to…

— Anonymous

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time…

— Samuel Johnson