Massive Opportunities w/in Design & User Interface with Cliff Kuang
My guest today is Cliff Kuang, author of a fantastic book called User Friendly: How The Hidden Rules of Design are Reshaping The Way We Live, Work, and Play, which was called a "tour de force" by the New York Times. He was the Design Editor at Fast Company, an Editor at Wired Magazine, and then a Senior Staff Designer on an innovations team at Google.
Cliff is obsessive about the deepest challenges facing UX design today such as the metaphors that undergird what we do, the future of digital ecosystems, and the future experiences those ecosystems can unlock.
Favorite Quotes:
“In the age of invisible updates delivered via the cloud we sort of live in this ever-present, we don’t remember what our tech interfaces looked like 10 years ago. There’s no past and there’s no future. It's very strange the way we live with technology and design right now.” - Cliff Kuang
“There’s this magical tension within design between creating something new and creating something recognizable. You’re trying to create something magic that feels like you’ve always used the thing but it’s actually the first time you’ve ever used it. That’s the magic of design.” - Cliff Kuang
Learn more about Cliff Kuang:
Twitter: @cliffkuang
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/cliff-kuang
Book: User Friendly: How The Hidden Rules of Design are Reshaping The Way We Live, Work, and Play