“Interface design isn’t only about making a device or application look attractive… it’s about making an appropriately pleasing application or device that people find useful and usable and want to integrate into their lives.” - Designing for Interaction by Dan Saffer

If you don’t already have it, be sure to get Dan’s book Designing for Interaction.

“Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.” - Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications by Bob Baxley

If you like this quote, you can find this and the rest of Bob’s thoughts in his book Making the Web Work: Designing Effective Web Applications

“The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design” - Massimo Vignelli in the film Helvetica

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