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Category Archives: Aphorisms
Aphorism 82
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
Alan Cooper, quoted by Edward Tufte
Aphorism 81
Writing is a form of processing my ideas.
Aphorism 80
She thinks she is leading the way, but actually she’s just going in front.
Overheard, context unknown
Aphorism 79
If it’s got a Change Management Board, it means it isn’t changing.
Aphorism 78
Unpolished designs have never stopped good products from succeeding, but it doesn’t mean that good products should remain unpolished.
Dmitry Fadeyev commenting on Are Designers Crazy? by Terence Eden
Aphorism 77
You can’t regulate for bad incentives.
Aphorism 76
Aphorism 75
If something makes sense within the organisation but sounds mad outside it, then that’s a good sign that something might be wrong with the culture.
Aphorism 74
The principal binary, political conflict of the 20th century was left versus right. In the 21st century, it is open versus closed.