#oliver reichenstein

[barbunyalar]

Minimal Design, Maximum Focus

Sandwiches can be complicated. While checking out (paying), I decide to go through with this thought, and look closely at the cheeseburger, and yes, indeed. The cheeseburger has the easiest food interface one could think of. No forks, no knives, no spoons, no plates, no chopsticks. Like a sandwich, but softer and sweeter and above all: Standardized. No alarms and no surprises when eating a cheeseburger. Almost as simple as “the only intuitive interface”—the nipple. Sandwiches can be complicated.

[akyndofgreanishlite]

What happens when we create an interface: one mind builds a way for other minds to interact with a thing. To lay the foundation of human-machine interaction you need to put thought into things and that requires that you put things into thought. This is why most interfaces suck, and most interfaces will continue to suck. No model, method, or tool will change that. Thinking is painful.

Putting Thought Into Things, Oliver Reichenstein https://ia.net/blog/putting-thought-into-things/

[onlineandkicking]

Don’t do it for the money. Don’t do it for no money.

- Oliver Reichenstein

[maxmurdoch]

Writer Pro

[14eleven]

The best designers have no attitude. Art directors are no artists. One thing is for sure: If you use that attitude when dealing with another designer, you better make sure you’re a 100% solid super star.

Oliver Reichenstein

[ifsbutsmaybes-blog]

A simulation or copy that outperforms the original is the basic principle of evolution in design.

Oliver Reichenstein

[wearehomegrown]

The Verge interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein

[jarrettfuller]

Metaphors are good if they simplify things. Metaphors that draw attention to themselves are detrimental, and double metaphors in a user interface are suicide bombs.

—Oliver Reichenstein on metaphors in interface design

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