No secret, the word creativity is often associated primarily with something close to the art of any kind – visual, verbal, musical, etc. However, going back to the roots, we’ll see that the word “create” coming from Latin creare “to make, bring forth, produce” can somehow associate with anything people do for global and personal progress, so creativity goes far beyond arts and crafts. The term is applicable to any sphere of human activity whose outcome is something originally solving problems or responding to life issues. Today, for the fresh issue of the D4U Inspiration section, we have collected a new set of quotes providing some insights into the phenomenon of creativity. These are the wise and witty thoughts by creative people, successful and recognized in various spheres of life, from design and arts to writing, eloquence, and business. So, enjoy and get inspired, creatives!

The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things: ancient history, nineteenth-century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, flower arranging, and hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later or six months, or six years down the road. But he has faith that it will happen. (Carl Ally)

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things. (Steve Jobs)

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity. (Charles Mingus)

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. (Scott Adams)

Creativity takes courage. (Henri Matisse)

Creativity is not just for artists. It’s for businesspeople looking for a new way to close a sale; it’s for engineers trying to solve a problem; it’s for parents who want their children to see the world in more than one way. (Twyla Tharp)

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. (Maya Angelou)

You have to be burning with an idea, or a problem, or a wrong that you want to right. If you’re not passionate enough from the start, you’ll never stick it out. (Steve Jobs)

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. (Edward de Bono)

Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it. (Dee Hock)

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun. (Pablo Picasso)

An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. (Edwin Land)

Creativity is as important as literacy and numeracy, and I actually think people understand that creativity is important – they just don’t understand what it is. (Ken Robinson)

Creativity is a gift. It doesn’t come through if the air is cluttered. (John Lennon)

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. (Mae Jemison)

Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art. (Andy Warhol)

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. (Ray Bradbury)

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things. (Theodore Levitt)

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people. (Leo Burnett)

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. (Edward de Bono)

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will. (George Bernard Shaw)

There are no formulas in creative work. I do many variations, which is a question of curiosity. I arrive at many different configurations – some just slight variations, others more radical – of an original idea. It is a game of evolution. (Paul Rand)

Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye. (Dorothy Parker)

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. (John Updike)

Creativity is intelligence having fun. (Albert Einstein)

Creativity is a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. (Arthur Koestler)

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. (Andre Gide)

From 30,000 feet, creating looks like art. From ground level, it’s a to-do list. (Ben Arment)

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. (Pablo Picasso)

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“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” (Paola Antonelli)

“Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.” (Matt Beale)

“There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.” (Massimo Vignelli)

“Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.” (Juan-Carlos Fernandez)

“Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.” (Alan Cooper)

“No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.” (Alan Cooper)

“If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.” (Alan Cooper)

“Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don’t have to worry about what will happen. Instead, they know what will happen based on earlier experience.” (Jakob Nielsen)

“Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.” (Jakob Nielsen)

“…pay attention to what users do, not what they say.” (Jakob Nielsen)

“On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website’s information is hard to read or doesn’t answer users’ key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?” (Jakob Nielsen)

“Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.” (Jeffrey Zeldman)

“Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.” (Paul Rand)

“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” (Paul Rand)

“Designing a product is designing a relationship.” (Steve Rogers)

“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.” (Jeffrey Zeldman)

“A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.” (Jesse James Garrett)

“Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.” (Jesse James Garrett)

“User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave – and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.” (Jesse James Garrett)

“Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.” (Jared Spool)

“Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.” (Jared Spool)

“Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.” (Jef Raskin)

“What users want is convenience and results.” (Jef Raskin)

“An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.” (Jef Raskin)

“Design is intelligence made visible.”  (Alina Wheeler)

“I never design a building before I’ve seen the site and met the people who will be using it.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)

“UI design is much more than just fitting together the puzzle pieces of a layout. To design an interface is to create function from form, to create structure while simplifying, and to illuminate while delighting.” (Jerry Cao)

“There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” (Milton Glaser)

“The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.” (Milton Glaser)

“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” (Robert L. Peters)

Originally collected for Tubik Blog

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Ten wise tips by Steve Krug

If you want a great site, you’ve got to test. After you’ve worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can’t see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it. (Steve Krug)

Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues. (Steve Krug)

The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. (Steve Krug)

Experts are rarely insulted by something that is clear enough for beginners. Everybody appreciates clarity. (Steve Krug)

If something requires a large investment of time—or looks like it will—it’s less likely to be used. (Steve Krug)

Your primary role should be to share what you know, not to tell people how things should be done. (Steve Krug)

Another needless source of question marks over people’s heads is links and buttons that aren’t obviously clickable. As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable—or not. (Steve Krug)

Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better. (Steve Krug)

Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away. (Steve Krug)

…usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology. (Steve Krug)

Ten wise tips by Donald Norman

What makes something simple or complex? It’s not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has. It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates. (Donald Norman)

It’s the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product… experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things. (Donald Norman)

The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable. (Donald Norman)

Attractive things work better… When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does. (Donald Norman)

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions. (Donald Norman)

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. (Donald Norman)

Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. (Donald Norman)

Designers know too much about their product to be objective judges: the features they have come to love and prefer may not be understood or preferred by the future customers. (Donald Norman)

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible. (Donald Norman)

Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their lives and do their activities. (Donald Norman)

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