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The ultimate goal of the Web is to support and improve our weblike existence in the world

“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!

In designing tools we are designing ways of being

“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.

Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades

“Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.” - Colleen Jones

“Technology creates the context for persuasion, but content persuades. Technology helps get content to the right people at the right time. The content still has to influence. Delivering the wrong content at the right time is as bad as delivering the right content at the wrong time.” – Colleen Jones

Read more in Colleen’s article “An Almost Perfect Storm.”

Designers have to be open to the changes that technology is making in our discipline

“I think that we, as designers, have to be completely open to the changes that technology is making in our discipline... as designers we need to be first in line to try the new technologies so that we can use the new technologies more to our advantage than to our detriment." - Debbie Millman

“I think that we, as designers, have to be completely open to the changes that technology is making in our discipline… as designers we need to be first in line to try the new technologies so that we can use the new technologies more to our advantage than to our detriment.” – Debbie Millman

Hear more from AIGA President Debbie Millman on the need for designers who are generally print focused to be open to new technologies.

New technology is likely to make the least improvement in the ease of use of products

“Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.” - Alan Cooper

“Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.” – Alan Cooper

This quote is from Alan’s book “The Inmates are Running the Asylum.” This quote was also mentioned in Interaction-Design.org’s quote of the day.

Manage the task the user wishes to complete, not the content or technology

“How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.” - Gerry McGovern

“How do we professionally manage content? We don’t. We shouldn’t manage content in the same way that we shouldn’t manage technology. Content and technology are merely a means to an end. What is the end? The end is the task the customer wishes to complete. That is what we should manage.” – Gerry McGovern

Read more from Gerry in his article “The Problem with Dirty Data”.