The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.

Am I an Apple bigot? No. I can critique their products and their customer service philosophy. But overall, they do better than any other player.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

Everyday people are not very good designers.