Ragnar Freyr

The imaginative process is cut short by the tools at hand; and it’s that imagination—or spark—at the beginning of a design that lays the path for everything that follows. Without it, you’re at best able to make a website that looks like a website—rather than a design that tells a story in the form of a website.

— A Real Web Design Application

Taken together, our findings provide evidence for the provocative notion that having access to the best things in life may actually undermine one’s ability to reap enjoyment from life’s small pleasures.

— Why Money Makes You Unhappy | Wired Science | Wired.com

The problem goes well beyond what we eat. It’s really about how many of us there are and how much we eat.

— Is Eating Less Meat Better than Eating No Meat? - GOOD Blog - GOOD - StumbleUpon

We associate complexity with progress for some ungodly reason.

— Imagine A World Without Money By John Steinsvold

Treating hangover is controversial because there’s already a cure, according to an editorial in Current Drug Abuse Reviews: Don’t drink so much.

— Can “hair of the dog” really alieviate a hangover? - Boing Boing

We often assume that the number of hours spent at work are an indication of one’s effort, interest, and accomplishment. However, in reality, the greatest ideas and the execution of these ideas happen in spurts. The best ideas often do not require a lengthy conception, and the most productive days are seldom the longest.

— Focus on Results, Not Time : - Tips

Interface design is when one is designing something that will be used by humans. The understanding of how a user thinks, learns and adapts is important knowledge. I’m not down playing graphic design in any way, it’s just different. For example, graphic designers have the intention to grab an emotional response visually. While Interface designers have the intention to grab a logical response mentally.

— Michael Dick — creative designer specializing in interface design and front-end development.