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The design process “has to start and end with end users,” he says. “These are the people who have to define the requirements of the technology, and give it the thumbs-up at the end.” Getting the seat, frame, and handles in the right positions to be both comfortable and advantageous in their physics was an engineer’s task of very fine designing and

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One of the things people value about Scandinavian design is that, generally, objects don’t draw attention to themselves. They are plain, functional and offer the user something “honest,” in Saarinen’s assessment. Linear’s leap forward in software development is that it is designed to be honest in this way, to literally not draw attention to itself

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I recently met up with YouTube’s first UX designer, @cFormm. He told me the story of his first day when Chad Hurley just told him: "Make YouTube better." Many designers might polish the visuals, propose a new feature, or do a full redesign. But Form took a scrappier approach. — He found 10 YouTube users, rode his motorcycle to their houses an... See more