Nice illustration of the user-centered design process from Louis Rosenfeld’s great article on Smashing magazine, Stop Redesigning And Start Tuning Your Site Instead.
“Take the money you’d spend on your MBA and start a company right now. Go head first, balls to the wall. Learn to deal with the fear, the uncertainty. Get laughed at by VCs with MBAs. Fuck up, embarrass yourself and learn to recover, to persist, to lick your wounds and pick yourself back up. That’s the shit you really need, and not even Harvard––especially not Harvard––can teach you that.”
“Restlessness to perform up to my set standard brings the best out of me”
“Every successful person isn’t insanely talented. Its the attitude which one decides to live his/her life with. Its when you realize that life is a journey and not thriving for a destination. Its when you realize that you can make this life a better journey, always.”
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
(Source: foreverahimsa)
“It’s easy to think that the way to improve life is to iterate on the things that we already have, but that is a trap of limited imagination. We should be iterating on how we answer our needs, and not necessarily on the way our old solutions have taken shape. The root of our practice is located in the usefulness of the work, not the form that it takes.”