“In Make it Bigger, [Paula] Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in the United States, and possibly the most famous female graphic designer in the world. Pointed and funny, it is an instructive guide for all those who navigate the difficult path between clients, employees, corporate structures, artists, and design professionals. Make it Bigger provides a survey of Scher’s groundbreaking work…”

“I discovered a way of colouring the natural numbers that I have found very fascinating. I use following eight colours: black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan and white. It started years ago when I realised that those numbers that can be expressed as the sum of just two squares (1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 13 etc.) contain all their multiplication products (e.g., 2×5=10)…”

“In Make it Bigger, [Paula] Scher candidly reveals her thoughts on design practice, drawing on her own experiences as one of the leading designers in the United States, and possibly the most famous female graphic designer in the world. Pointed and funny, it is an instructive guide for all those who navigate the difficult path between clients, employees, corporate structures, artists, and design professionals. Make it Bigger provides a survey of Scher’s groundbreaking work…”

“There’s nothing nicer than a tune playing in your head — until you can’t turn it off. The phenomenon has spanned the ages. In 1882, Mark Twain wrote in a short story of an annoying ‘jingling rhyme’ that became indelibly lodged in the author’s mind until he passed the curse along to another hapless victim.”

“A decade after their chart success, Jesus Jones are a hit on the corporate gig circuit. Frontman Mike Edwards explains why cashing in isn’t selling out.”

“Some professions are easier to label than others. Lawyers, doctors, accountants, firemen, plumbers — these people can name their job easily at a cocktail party. Somehow ‘user experience practitioner’ doesn’t roll off the tongue so easily. Hence the inevitable effort for UX-types to name what it is they do: at conferences and in newsletters, for years, I’ve seen the endless discussions. Should it be ‘usability professional?’ ‘Information designer?’ ‘Interaction architect?’ Some other permutation? Here’s my proposal — easy to pronounce, easy to understand, just two easy words: ‘Who cares?’”

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“Discoverability is often defined as the ability for a user of a design to locate something that they need, in order to complete a certain task. It’s common to hear programmers and designers utter the phrase ‘that won’t be discoverable,’ while pointing to a specific command or link they believe users will fail to find. The trap, and the myth, of discoverability is that in any design, not everything can be discoverable. There are two flavors of the myth: the core myth, and it’s corollary.”