“Content + Context bring meaning. Interface is a kludge.”
Designing for iPad: Reality Check
“Leather buttons…feels very much like real leather buttons would feel: Tacky. It feels wrong and it is wrong. It’s kitsch. If you favor style over function to make something look like something it is not, you are not a product designer, you are an illusion artist.”
Against Chrome: A Manifesto
“I say that flat is the new black; that 2D is the new avant-garde; that a surface doesn’t have to be ashamed of being a surface.”
Against Chrome: A Manifesto, by Steven Poole
Joel Spolsky
“Well-designed objects make it clear how they work just by looking at them.”
Joel Spolsky, in Affordances and Metaphors