startupvitamins:

When you find an idea that you just can’t stop thinking about that’s probably a good one to pursue. -Josh James, Omniture

The most important thing is obviousness. The problem is overdesign

— Loren Brichter, a High Priest of App Design - WSJ.com (via bijan)

How People Sit In Meetings

evangotlib:

You’re welcome.

If you can’t explain it simply,
you don’t understand it well enough.

— Albert Einstein (via uxliving)

One of the great myths of the school system is that we tell people that everyone should learn exactly the same thing and exactly the same way, at roughly exactly the same speed. And that’s just not true. People learn in different ways, at different speeds, at different times. And so hacking your education allows you to learn what, when, how and where you want.

— 

Dale J. Stephens, author of Hacking Your Education and founder of UnCollege.org

via NPR

(via curiositycounts)

Wealth is not a number of dollars. It is not a number of material posessions. It’s having options and the ability to take on risk.

— Tupperwolf - Wealth, risk, and stuff (via khuyi)

Less Aesthetic, More Design →

ernievox:

“Design is a form of problem solving. Never Forget that.”

- Wells Riley

Well said, good tip on the matter.

fastcodesign:

Designers! In March a new program called Bridge by Designer Fund will pair up designers with high profile startups like Path, Dropbox, Pinterest, and Airbnb.

Bridge isn’t your typical residency, built to get young people into the industry. Rather, it’s intended for mid- to senior-level designers across all disciplines to try out the startup experience for three months—completely integrated with the team, working on an applied project that can be finished within a quarter.

For more on Bridge, check out the full story here.

georgp:

Bringing back the line, expressing the idea. Photography freed us from capturing the appearance of things, the sketch goes for the essence. FiftyThree in collaboration with Woman’s Wear Daily, is live sketching some of the biggest shows at NY Fashion week February 7 - 14, 2013. We brought together diverse talents from computer science, graphic design, fashion, art, industrial design, film and illustration to capture the ideas behind the collections. Follow along at wwdonpaper.fiftythree.com.