I’ve been thinking lately about design and universal principles that I should apply to both my ux designs and the process surrounding their creation. I’ve come across a handful of quotes that illustrates a few good ideas that i would like to capture. I’m going to list a few of my ideas and the quotes behind them. Think of these as candidate principles or guidelines for the final list.
It’s free to think, so do it a lot.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. – Linus Pauling
Keep it as simple as it can be without being simpler than it should be.
The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. – John Maeda
Consider the entire product experience.
The experience is the product. – Brandon Schauer (with autograph in the cover of “Subject to Change”)
That’s all I have on my list for now. Any suggestions for candidate principles or supporting quotes.
I found a few pictures of me on Flickr taken during the UXIntensive workshop I attended last week. Here I am talking about using comic strips to help achieve stakeholder buy-in. Good thing I payed attention when we talked about it at Capstrat.
Here’s another of me presenting our group’s visualization of the hotel check-in process. I like this diagram because it indicates time and user satisfaction at a glance while maintaining fine-grained details in the post-it notes.
Lastly here’s one of us making the above diagram.
I’m in Minneapolis this week for Adaptive Path’s UXIntensive workshop. Things here will get ramped up tomorrow with an all-day session on design research. I’m looking forward to that and all of the other sessions and social events. I plan to write a blog article each day over on the Field Notes, the Capstrat blog. Be sure to check it out at:
http://blog.capstrat.com/authors/evan-carroll/
