If the great philosophers had been user interface designers (pt. 3, Oscar Wilde)
Although an information architect at heart, Oscar Wilde spent much of his life working as a graphic designer, trying to disprove common fallacies of interface design by blatantly extolling them.
However, the finer points of his humor were by and large lost on colleagues and clients alike who held him as one of the greatest proponents of aesthetics over usability, while fellow interaction designers dismissed him as decadent.
Wilde became famous for aphorisms like the popular “Those who see good usability in beautiful interfaces are the elect. For these there is hope of ROI.” Or “The only way to get rid of an interfering CEO is to yield to his favorite color scheme.”
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