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(The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design—a multidisciplinary hub of innovation at Stanford where all the classes are based on the design thinking process).
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
Before we start any work, I always tell our clients that we are not—and will never be—the expert on their business. But we are the experts on moving them through a design process that will benefit their customers, which in turn will help their business. But to do that, we first need to dig into what the client is trying to achieve.
Irene Pereyra • Universal Principles of UX: 100 Timeless Strategies to Create Positive Interactions between People and Technology (Rockport Universal)
The hero banner pattern on a TED.com talk screen can accommodate long titles, which is in line with their design principles.
Alla Kholmatova • Design Systems (Smashing eBooks)
Simplicity —The idea can be expressed simply and succinctly, without sacrificing depth (e.g., “It’s the economy, stupid,” used during Bill Clinton’s 1992 U.S. presidential campaign). 2. Surprise —The idea contains an element of surprise, which grabs attention (e.g., when the Center for Science in the Public Interest wanted to alarm consumers to the
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“Design thinking, double diamond, agile, scrum, lean UX, design sprint. Humans seek formulas. Formulas sell books, classes, and courses, and feed multi-million contracts where consultancies come in to fix teams that are misaligned and can’t get work done. Watch out for Trademarked Processes™ that claim to solve all your company’s problems. Instead,
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