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“Design is often applied to impress and make things chic. My intention is to omit every unnecessary element in order to place the essentials in the foreground.”

Dieter Rams

“It’s easy to educate for the routine, and hard to educate for the novel. Keep in mind that many required skills will change: developers today code in something called Python, but when I was in school C was all the rage. The need for reasoning, though, remains constant, so we believe in taking the most challenging courses in core disciplines: math, sciences, humanities.”

Google’s advice to students

“If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.”

An old saying in Texas

Cool!!! A great presentation about the design process at Adaptive Path that can meet you personal needs.

“Social software’s purpose is dealing with groups, or interactions between people. This is as opposed to conventional software like Microsoft Word, which although it may have collaborative features (”track changes”) isn’t primarily social. (Those features could learn a lot from social software however.) The primary constraint of social software is in the design process: Human factors and group dynamics introduce design difficulties that aren’t obvious without considering psychology and human nature.” from Interconnected.org

“Design is first and foremost an intellectual process. Contrary to popular belief, designers are not artists. They employ artistic methods to visualize thinking and process, but, unlike artists, they work to solve a client’s problem, not present their own view of the world. If a design project, however, is to be considered successful – and that would be the true measure of quality – it will not only solve the problem at hand, but also add an aesthetic dimension beyond the pragmatic issues.” Erik Spiekerman