Posts tagged design
“User Experience is the establishment of a philosophy about how to treat people. Visual Design is the establishment of a philosophy about how to make an impact.”
Whitney Hess quoted in User Experience The Don Draper Way
“Fab didn’t scale like an ecommerce company, because it isn’t one. Sure, ecommerce is how they make money, but what drives the love for Fab is the content. Co-founders Jason Goldberg and Bradford Shellhammer are essentially magazine editors masquerading as etailers. Day-after-day, they are designing a gorgeous, aspirational life for you one item at a time.
…What’s more: This is a company no one in the Valley would have built.”
The Gmail Logo Was Designed the Night Before Gmail Launched
“I had never noticed before how the G of Gmail was such a different style than the rest of the logo, but now that I’ve focused on it, that G is always going to stick out, the serif-laden man among his serif-less friends.”
(via elleluna)
“We believe that the next step in copying will be made from digital form into physical form. It will be physical objects. Or as we decided to call them: Physibles. Data objects that are able (and feasible) to become physical. We believe that things like three dimensional printers, scanners and such are just the first step. We believe that in the nearby future you will print your spare sparts for your vehicles. You will download your sneakers within 20 years.”
“Remember: only you can prevent viral media from spreading.”
“Most social communication products - from Facebook to Twitter to Path are designed in a way which causes us to all slowly ruin the quality of our experience.”
A classic - London Transport Infographics, 1912-1969
Oldie but goodie. (via George Takei)
