tess chan

UX Designer - All my musings about design, tech and psychology

[tess chan @tess_ux]

“If you’re going to make something, it doesn’t take any more energy—and rarely does it take more money—to make it really great. All it takes is a little more time. Not that much more. And a willingness to do so, a willingness to persevere until it’s really great.” - Steve Jobs

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People don’t wanna learn things, people wanna do things.

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Experience makes your UX assumptions better.

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Every product should be built to be part of a design system, made of reusable components and patterns to function effectively within the platform.

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Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

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A payroll administrator, thinks about how employees are getting paid, they’re not thinking about the feelings of the employees.

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“We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.” ― Quintilian

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The point of agile is to minimize risks by making incrementa l changes.

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The biggest heartache when you're simultaneously learning and building a new product, is in the looking back at what you designed yesterday knowing that you would have done it differently today. (and debating with yourself if you should redo it)

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Facts are not what change peoples’ mindsets. Frames are. https://t.co/8fjvjz53g3

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Less, but better - Dieter Rams

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“The role of the designer is that of a very good, thoughtful host anticipating the needs of his guests.” - Ray Eames

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Certain kind of systems are vulnerable to failure - they are complex (there will be surprises) and tightly coupled (there will be no time to deal with those surprises).

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The more we understand systemic behavior, the more we can anticipate that behavior and work with systems (rather than being controlled by them) to shape the quality of our lives. (Daniel Kim @ https://t.co/8FVOrPQ9EO)

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Understanding how systems work – and how we play a role in them – lets us function more effectively n proactively within them. (Daniel Kim @ https://t.co/8FVOrPQ9EO)

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I have been so caught up in work, that I haven't been logging down all the thoughts I have. How do we juggle time for reflection and work?

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This is so cool! Such a fun and digestable way to communicate the UX process. https://t.co/SAyqaJQq58

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Market research is about what people want, while design research is about what people find useful and meaningful.

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A design system help users navigate intuitively and makes it familiar to users.

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A key skill for any UX Designer - Stakeholder EQ