Apple is reportedly preparing to offer a smaller seven-inch iPad even as the rivals are running fast to introduce their version of tablet computers. Apple’s 9.7-inch iPad is a sure winner in the tablet arena as of the moment, well, except for Samsung being the “competition”. Hewlett-Packard and others are already …
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Quote: Good design
Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.
Drew Davies
Not having an idea might just help you a have perfectly creative idea!
Everyone’s saying that in order to be creative, you have to have an idea. Creativity flows from your ideas, they say. But is this really absolute? How about if you honestly don’t have any idea about the matter at all. Are you doomed? Or is not having …
Quote: Design is not style
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was …
Quote: Magical Balance
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public.
Valerie Pettis
Quote: Visual design VS. engineering
Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. It’s messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit.
Scott …
Quote: The failure of Design
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience’s role in it will be.
Edwin Schlossberg
Quote: Design preparation
I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Choosing an image that fits
Choosing the perfect and right image is a constant challenge for designers, writers, freelancers, photographers. You always want the picture to tell a thousand words more than what your article is trying to tell. The picture ties it all together; it summarizes everything that you wrote about. You can’t leave the choice to chance.
In this …
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