Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated at Amazon

It’s becoming more and more evident to me that I should have gone to design school instead of engineering school.  Not that I didn’t love engineering school, ok maybe I didn’t love Dr. Royster (Vibrations) and Dr. Kleinstreuer’s (Fluid Mechanics) classes, but it just seems to me that all the design principles I’ve been learning of late are serving me very well in my day to day work.  Design is going into everything I do, its all about putting thought into the why and the how of every task.  I must say I’m truly loving putting thought into every aspect of what I’m doing professionally.

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I think I like the subtitle (Getting the design right and the right design) better than the title (Sketching User Experiences – although if someone had written a book of my work it would probably be called Sketchy User Experiences) of this call to arms by Bill Buxton. As someone who had their favorite moment in their career designing a piece of software, this book is equal parts inspiring and frustrating. It definitely makes me want to get in front of another piece of software but with a true design phase.

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