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Richard Saul Wurman: Being an IA means to communicate with rigor and responsibility. #IA #UX #ias10

I don’t think in terms of wireframes… I don’t think in terms of Information Architecture, I think in terms of understanding.  I’m interested in understanding things that interest me and I am interested in the systemic rigger of being able to explain.  I’m interested in communicating with another human being …and I am doing it with rigor and responsibility, and that is what information architecture is.  It’s not the modality, not the particular technology… it’s just making yourself understandable.

— Richard Saul Wurman, IA Summit 2010
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I’ve never been able to phrase it as well as Richard Saul Wurman, but it is exactly what I feel being an IA (or UX, if you want) is about. And it’s also exactly why I like working in this field.

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“If everyone loves everything that we’re releasing all the time we are failing.” - Jen Bekman.

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A new favourite tumblr: “Startup quote!”
I like quotes, and I like it if they’re put in a nice design.

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Douglas Engelbart on ease of use:

If ease of use were the only requirement, we would all be riding tricycles
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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P.J. O’Rourke

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A modern paradox is that it’s simpler to create complex interfaces because it’s so complex to simplify them.
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Pär Almqvist

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If an interaction is fun, design it with more friction. If it’s boring, design it with less. Don’t blindly make everything faster and easier.
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Is that so, yes? Hm.

Joey Roth (via jackcheng)

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Ease of use may be invisible but it’s absence sure isn’t.
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IBM

More great quotes for User Experience Geeks: www.uxquotes.com

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Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.
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Tony Hsieh, CEP von zappos.com

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Note to self: More levity. Less worry. Stop being so meta and just make stuff, not making stuff about making stuff. That sucks.
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So very true!

Frank Chimero (via jackcheng)

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The truth isn’t the truth until people believe you, and they can’t believe you if they don’t know what your saying, and they can’t know what you’ve saying if they don’t listen to you, and they won’t listen to you if you’re not interesting, and you won’t be interesting until you say things imaginatively, originally, freshly.
— Bill Bernbach
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