"Designers are not users."

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Source : "Usability Engineering". Book by Jakob Nielsen, 1993.

Jakob Nielsen

#Design Quotes #Designer Quotes #Users Quotes

“I want to make it as hard as possible. Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun. And I would tax the guns, bullets and the license itself very heavily.”
“Fashion is the art of making the unimportant indispensable.”
“A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.”
“Each player on this team whether he shines in the spotlight or eats dirt on the line, must be an All-American.”
“By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.”
“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

Source : Andrew Carnegie (1913). “The Empire of Business”
“I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.”
“Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.”

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