#013 Cliff Kuang: Optimizing User Interface And The Massive Opportunities Within Design
Nov 02, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast Episode description
Today my guest is Cliff Kuang, author of a fantastic book called User Friendly: How The Hidden Rules of Design are Reshaping The Way We Live, Work, and Play, which was called a "tour de force" by the New York Times. He was the Design editor of Fast Company, and Editor at Wired Magazine. From there he went on to work at Google as a Senior Staff Designer on an innovations team. Cliff is obsessive about the deepest challenges facing UX design today such as the metaphors that undergird what we do, the future of digital ecosystems, and the future experiences those ecosystems can unlock. Enjoy these topics and many more on this episode of Jorgenson’s Soundbox!
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Topics Covered:
What Cliff is doing to change the entire landscape of user interface
What a unicorn is within the design industry and why they’re a dying breed
The universal problem of design
What is “good” design
How metaphor and feedback are at the core of user interface
How design is empathetic
Why we are in the ever-present of user interface
Additional Resources:
User Friendly
Cliff’s Twitter
Eric Jorgenson Newsletter
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