Air force Quote by Rex Hartson

“In particular, I want to present the stages in the historical development of user interfaces in terms of the different sets of human skills…

— Paul Dourish

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and…

— David McCandless

Generations of thinkers have made typewriters their frenemies, and long before there were Gmail inboxes, print correspondence stacked up, some hastily written and impulsive…

— Mary Pilon

We use the word typography to describe two different things: the design of letterforms, and the layout of typeset passages on a page. Both…

— Michael Bierut

“The diagnostics and modifications screens. Ugly and utilitarian, just like they have been since the very beginnings of visual user interface. They were beautiful.”

— John Scalzi

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought…

— Douglas Adams

The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s…

— Sharon Lee

“The openness of such networked devices reflects our growing desire to construct writing in a way that breaks down the traditional distinctions between the…

— Jay David Bolter

Content dictates form and style.

— Stephen Sondheim

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life

— danah boyd

The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones…

— Douglas Coupland

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed…

— David Rose