Jared Spool Quotes

#1. If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#2. Some people are so into web standards that they've removed all the tables from their houses

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#3. When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

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#4. Since the moment I laid eyes on Jericho Barrons, I wanted him. I wanted him to do things to me that pink and clueless MacKayla Lane was shocked and appalled and ... okay, yeah, well, utterly fascinated to find herself thinking about.

Karen Marie Moning

#5. If he was only sorry, he wouldn't look at me as he does. I am only sorry, and it makes me feel kinder.

Charles Dickens

#6. A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don't have to go through any training to get there When a design is not intuitive, our attention moves away from what we're trying to accomplish to how we can get the interface to accomplish what we want.

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#7. When it meows, one scarcely hears it ... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

Charles Baudelaire

#8. Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

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#9. The poster child of Web 2.0 is Flickr. Personalization is a key piece of Web 2.0.

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#10. The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can.

John Gardner

#11. The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.

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#12. Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

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#13. In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.

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#14. Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

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#15. Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

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#16. Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?

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