Tagged: design
If you think something is clever and sophisticated beware—it is probably self-indulgence.
Don Norman The Psychology of Everyday Things
From Jef Raskin’s The Humane Interface:
You can have any combination of features the Air Ministry desires, so long as you do not also require that the resulting airplane fly.
Willy Messerschmidt
It's better to hide [complexity] from people, than to force them to learn about it and deal with it. Tom Dale on JSJ: Specialized vs Monolithic (at around 18:20)
I've never been a big fan of watching the big Apple launch events, however I've found that listening to Steve Jobs talk about working at Apple and developing products is fascinating: