Humility & the Interaction Designer

When asked what personal qualities make a good interaction designer, Larry Tesler highlighted humility:

“Enough confidence to believe you can solve any design problem and enough humility to understand that most of your ideas are probably bad. Enough humility to listen to ideas from other people that may be better than your own and enough confidence to understand that going with other people’s ideas does not diminish your value as a designer.”

Larry Tesler, Vice President of the User Experience and Design group, Yahoo in Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction.

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2 Responses to Humility & the Interaction Designer

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  2. James Box says:

    Hi Shameka

    The ‘theme’ is pretty much handmade. Quick and dirty. You’re more than welcome to use anything.

    James

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