words to inspire user experience designers

“Designers are an odd lot: creative, moody, pensive, thoughtful, weird. But the one characteristic that separates designers from others is action. They make stuff that didn’t exist before. They take the idea living deep inside their head and pull it out, realizing it in a drawing, prototype, or product. Unlike most people, they don’t just think about it. They don’t just brainstorm. They don’t just imagine something better and then talk themselves out of it. Instead, they act.” – Joshua Porter

Read more in Joshua’s 52 Weeks of UX article “Dreamers of Day.”

“To create great user experiences we need to focus on the now. In reality the problems of our users are painfully mundane and often obvious. It is our task to ease this pain, and in doing so we might not invent some amazing new thing, but that’s OK. Success is incremental.” – Joshua Porter

Read more in Joshua’s article “Solve Existing Problems” from 52 Weeks of UX

“The behavior you’re seeing is the behavior you’ve designed for (whether intentional or not).” – Joshua Porter

This quote is from Joshua’s presentation “Designing for Social Traction.”

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