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"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."
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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either."

"The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants."
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"But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools."

"I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants."

"User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process."

"Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves."

"But the best teams I've encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success."

"As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement."

"The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before."
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