“The web is more a social creation than a technical one. I designed it for a social effect – to help people work together – and not as a technical toy. The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world.” – Weaving The Web by Tim Berners-Lee
Read more in Tim’s book Weaving The Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web.
Thanks to interaction-design.org for pointing to this quote!
“It’s the designer’s job to think about your site the way a user does, and tell them what they need to hear, and when they need to hear it… Design is about communication, and it takes more than pixels to communicate.” – Derek Powazek
This quote is from Derek’s A List Apart article “Calling All Designers: Learn to Write!”
As you may have noticed, inspireUX’s design has remained the same since it launched almost 2 years ago. As a result of the site’s growing readership and continuous evolution, I’ve been spending the past few months working on redesigning this site. I have posted a few static screenshots of my proposed redesign. I’d love any feedback that you have!
“All new technologies develop within the background of a tacit understanding of human nature and human work. The use of technology in turn leads to fundamental changes in what we do, and ultimately in turn what it is to be human. We encounter the deep questions of design when we recognize that in designing tools we are designing ways of being.” – Understanding Computers and Cognition. A New Foundation for Design by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
Read more by purchasing Terry and Fernando’s book Understanding Computers and Cognition. A New Foundation for Design. Thanks to interaction-design.org for sharing this quote.
“The brilliance of a good designer is not defined by her ability to represent the world as she sees it, but by her trained ability to represent it as others expect to see it.” – Nishant Kothary
Read more in Nishant’s UX Magazine article “Predictable Design.”
