My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for your parents or yourself, a museum, or a toaster, or a book, or whatever. The big design problem is designing your life. It's by the design of your life that you create the backboard off which you bounce all your thoughts and ideas and creativity. You have to decide what it is that you want to do each day.
If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to unders… - Richard Saul Wurman
If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to unders…
- Richard Saul Wurman
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity? - Richard Saul Wurman
What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?
My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going… - Richard Saul Wurman
My definition of learning is to remember what you are interested in. If you don't remember something, you haven't learned it, and you are never going…
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know. - Richard Saul Wurman
Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand. - Richard Saul Wurman
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it's like NOT to understand.
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’.… - Richard Saul Wurman
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’.…
The organization of information actually creates new information. - Richard Saul Wurman
The organization of information actually creates new information.
You only understand information relative to what you already understand. - Richard Saul Wurman
You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in… - Richard Saul Wurman
Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in…
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