Jan Tschichold in 1925: “An extraordinary economy would be achieved through the exclusive use of small letters – the elimination of all capital letters; a form of writing and setting that is recommended as a new script by all innovators in the field.”
“Awareness of my own working methods has helped me to visualize others’ data-processing needs. Every day I make multiple phone calls while my Macintosh runs up to six software programs at once. I send faxes and E-mail, and I am productively addicted to good electronic bulletin boards. I watch obscure satellite TV stations for interesting images or textures, and I enjoy CDs played at high volume.” – P. Scott Makela, 1993
One of the hardest aspects of product development to reason about, because it’s “invisible,” is relevance: the order in which you see stuff. The more I learn about it, the more I notice when it’s off on small features I use every day (add photo to album, open contacts, enter location in maps...). It reminds me of learning about typography – you start to see flaws and questionable choices everywhere. Maybe this is a downside of learning anything (greater sensitivity to flaws you can’t fix).