Jesse James Garrett Quotes

Jesse James Garrett (29)

Nationality:	American
Profession:	Academic, Computer Scientist

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• Kids are pretty brutal.

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• I’d love to direct, I’d love to produce. I’d love to learn all about it, and being around it all the time certainly helps.

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  I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school.

   

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• I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I turned probably around 16. Things started to take off career-wise.

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• I still bite my nails.

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• I get insecure about a lot of things. In my line of work, unfortunately, your appearance is important, and I’m always like, ‘Am I going to the gym enough this month? Have I been taking care of myself?’ I get insecure about things from time to time.

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  I definitely caught a lot of backlash in my situation, not just from students but also from faculty, which was unfortunate, given that I was spending a lot of my time outside school working on a career, which a lot of people didn’t really agree with.

   

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• Bono is my inspiration – not only as a rock star but as a humanitarian. We aren’t just put on this earth to sell records. Maybe it’s because of my upbringing, but I do consider myself a moral guy.

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• All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I’m into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I’d love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

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• Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

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  User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave – and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

   

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• There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

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  The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

   

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• The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

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  My job involves a lot of different skills now – I’m as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days – but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

   

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  If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can’t get on your own.

   

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  I’m not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.

   

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• Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.

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  Content is often the reason users come to your site.

   

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• But the best teams I’ve encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct competencies necessary for success.

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