← People and their mental models
4 claims Susan Kare made fit 3 mental models. Most often: Less, but better, Design is how it works, Margin of safety. Everything they said here.
Find the essence and cut the rest; simplicity is hard work, not the absence of effort.
Their wordsSo, I my bias in icons is the a salient detail or two, but don't lard it with a lot of extra stuff.
Their wordsBut again, too much detail. It would have had a much longer lifespan if I had just stopped and made it simpler.
Judge a design by what it does for the person using it, not only by how it looks.
Their wordsalways focus on making things meaningful and memorable. And I think the heart of that is have a good idea and then the form will follow.
Leave room for being wrong, because sometimes you will be.
Their wordsI mean, I know I always think, "I can do this in an hour." When really, nothing takes an hour. And um so many projects I've worked on you optimistically think you know exactly what you want to do, but it's still allow extra time.