Quips from NYTimes magazine on Design:
Inspiration: Where Does It Come From?: “The most impressive designs are those that seem naturally right, unimprovable, inevitable.”
The Guts of a New Machine: “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. The starting point for IPod wasn’t a chip or a design; the starting point was the question, What’s the user experience? If you start to work on something, and the time is right, pieces come in from the periphery. The pieces just come together. The design process is not serial. It’s not one person passing something on to the next. It’s almost easier to talk about it as what it’s not.”
Great design is a solution to a problem with a keen awareness of how the aesthetics of that solution fits into its overall surroundings.
Great design, not only makes the first impression, but can also avoid commonly known pitfalls and browser defects, and a project that can be built.