37 posts tagged with quote
User Experience design inspiration
One of my current feed favourites comes via inspireUX – “words to inspire user experience designers”. Every second day I receive a new quote in my feed reader that focuses on the impact that user experience has on people, business, or the world.
Here is today’s quote, for example:
Content makes the sale, delivers the
Design doesn’t matter if it doesn’t have a message
The Credibility Gap, at BDI:
And then there is what one designer calls the “Command-D” factor:
Some clients believe that a lot of design is handled by software. “Just hit Command-D and the design comes out.” This serves to undermine designers’ value as visual and strategic thinkers and turns them into computer jockeys. The next step, of
Identical endeavours
I’m posting this via a Bluetooth/GPRS connection to my cellphone, although my service was suspended yesterday because I exceeded my call limit. Vodacom, my service provider, place a mandatory 3 month limit on new contracts for whatever reason. As Murphy would have it, my 3 months ends on Tuesday, but I exceeded the … view full post
You’ve got to find what you love
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day
You know you have a good idea when…
You know you have a good idea when you lie awake conceptualising it for hours, and it still sounds good when you wake up the next morning. That’s all. :)
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
Makosi … view full post
Shame
TNT Magazine readers’ Letter of the Week:
I’m an Australian who, during my time here in the UK, has befriended many South Africans. However, one thing (actually the only thing) about these mates that grates on me is their inappropriate use of the noun ’shame’ in all topics of conversation. An example of this would
Life is an open road – it’s the best story never told
I received the following e-mail via my contact form earlier this month:
HI I SAW YOUR ADD ON TV ABOUT
WINNING A MAKE OVER
I REALLY THINK I NEED A MAKE OVER
EVERY TIME I MENTION IT TO MY HUSBAND
HE SAYS I DON’T NEED IT BUT WHEN I LOOK IN THE MIRROR I THINK I DO
Hmmm, yes. What, when, why, how?
Anyway. Today I … view full post
Who’s to blame?
I found this over at Jo’blog – Who’s to blame? – and had a good laugh.
I’ve said it before, I hate web advertising. But I despise billboard advertising. And not only because a billboard advertising company is a past client and the owner was an unappreciative prat: there’s … view full post
Whoopi Goldberg
A lot of people don’t know this about me…but that’s how I got my name, from my frequent farting. When I was in my 20s and diagnosed with ulcers, I was encouraged to fart up a storm, and my friends started calling me Whoopi. I was like a walking whoopee cushion, they said. It was an easy tag and the