“Designers should be arbiters of the truth: They should be the kind of people who stand up and tell it like it is, and that usually calls for courage.” – Kevin Mattice
This quote is from Kevin’s guest post “The Clear War” on Dustin Curtis’ blog.
Thanks Paul Seys for your tweet pointing to this quote!
“Every design decision… contributes to the behavior of the masses, and helps define the culture of our society. This describes an enormous opportunity for designers, one that is rarely realized. We are, quite literally, building the culture around us; arguably, our effect is larger and more immediate than even policy decisions of our government. We are responsible for both the positive and negative repercussions of our design decisions, and these decisions have monumental repercussions.” – Jon Kolko
This quote is from Jon’s article “Our Misguided Focus on Brand and User Experience.”
“The idea is to focus development not only on the UX, but what the UX enables, and—most crucially—what we want to happen after the UX.” – Kathy Sierra
This quote is from a December 2nd tweet from Kathy.
“Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.” – Warren Berger
This quote is from Warren’s article “Four Things I’ve Learned About Designers.”
“Experience design is the design of anything, independent of medium, or across media, with human experience as an explicit outcome, and human engagement as an explicit goal.” – Jesse James Garrett
This quote was submitted by Michael Cummings. Jesse’s quote is from his UX Week 2009 presentation “State of User Experience.” Watch the video and read Michael’s summary of the talk here.
“Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.” – The Art & Science of Web Design by Jeffrey Veen
Purchase Jeffrey’s book The Art & Science of Web Design here.