if you are suggestive of listening to each and every feedback and source ideas for your product from the crowd-controlled opinion market, you’re pretty much in a cul-de-sac.
– thomas marban, indecisive
cul-de-sac
Apr 22 2009
Different, Simply to be Different, is Seldom Better
Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different.
Dieter Rams, (cribbed from a pull-quote in Good Design in Ten Commandments) [via ★]
Feb 25 2009
Either it works or it doesn’t
Design isn’t art; it’s practical. Your designed object, including layouts and Web sites, either works or it doesn’t. One way to gauge whether or not it works is through sales. If the public needs reëducation on your design object, it never “worked” in the first place.
– Joe Clark, Special warning to the Krit Kidz
Feb 22 2009
On launching a product
It’s one more reason to kick your project, whatever it is, out of the nest as soon as you can. It’s often the only way to know if it can really fly.
Feb 17 2009