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“We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them.”
— Albert Einstein
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”
— Henry Ford
Or as Steve Jobs said:
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
“Upgrade your user, not your product.
Don’t build better cameras, build better photographers.”
— Kathy Sierra
“Certainty is a closing of the mind.
To create something new, you must have doubt.”
— Milton Glaser
“If we understand what the extremes are, the middle will take care of itself.”
— Dan Formosa
“Elimination is the highest form of optimisation.”
— James Clear
“The more you talk, the less people listen.”
— Meg White
“The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host, anticipating the needs of their guests.”
— Charles Eames
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Great customer experience is about maximising task completion and minimising time-on-task.”
— Gerry McGovern
Or as we like to say: “reduce time and effort”.
“If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous, and helpful.”
— Alan Cooper
“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.”
— Dr. Ralf Speth
“One does not accumulate, but eliminate.
It is not daily increase, but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.”
— Bruce Lee
“Thoroughness and precision are expressions of respect for the user.”
— Dieter Rams
@steampowered.com could offer a world-class gaming experience, but the interface lets it down.
Thanks to the paradox of choice and a launcher that stifles exploration, too many games go unplayed.
So we wondered: what if we designed it like Plex?
The final result:
blog.parrot9.com/steam-case-s...
