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“It's not the Ink. It's the Think” — Bob Mankoff
Via twitter.com
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“Design that does not serve people does not serve business”
Via www.vimeo.com
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“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution isn’t beautiful, I know it is wrong.” — Richard Buckminster Fuller
Via quotesondesign.com
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“Sometimes, that 'little extra' your design needs is starting over from scratch.” — @Cocoia
Via twitter.com
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“PowerPoint is the enemy of awesome –
There’s an inverse relationship between the quantity of PowerPoint produced by a team and both the quality of work produced by that team, and their level of happiness.”
Via bbh-labs.com
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“Don't give users what they expect — give them what they deserve.”
Via twitter.com
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“Some say “Why waste time using CSS3 when only minority browsers will see it?” — I say “Don’t be a lazy fucker!”
Via twitter.com
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“Craftmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake” -R. Sennett, The Craftsman
Via twitter.com
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“Put “fun” in functionality.”
—Andy Budd
Via blogs.zdnet.com
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“So how did the company decide what customers wanted - surely by using focus groups? “We don't do focus groups,” he said firmly, explaining that they resulted in bland products designed not to offend anyone.”
Via hickensian.com
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“Dear client, just because a competitor does something on their site does not mean you should too. You will never take the lead by following.” @boagworld
Via twitter.com
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“Using white space is not a designer’s nerdy issue. It’s not about taste.”
Via informationarchitects.jp
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“The head of Black and Decker once said, folks don’t buy our products because they want one inch drills, they buy our stuff because they want one inch holes.”
Via gartenblog.net
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“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.”
— Marcus T. Cicero
Via quotesondesign.com
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“Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.”
— Tate Linden
Via quotesondesign.com
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“Broken gets fixed. Shoddy lasts forever.”
Via designaday.tumblr.com
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“The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.” Felelon
Via dangerousintersection.org
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“You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.” Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)
Via dangerousintersection.org
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Grids don't make dull layouts—designers do.
Via books.google.com
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“Audience and purpose.”
Via twitter.com
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“Don't do anything stupid, and don't do anything clever.”
Via twitter.com
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“It has a great user experience, but that’s all.”
Via daringfireball.net
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“Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.”
Via twitter.com
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“It's a fun programming exercise that you're doing because it's just hard enough to be interesting but not so hard that you can't figure it out.”
Via www.joelonsoftware.com
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“Server-side programmers who hide on the server and deny that the client-side matters; client-side programmers so obsessed with the latest cool thing, that they're quite happy to leave groups of people behind in the name of what's cutting-edge and sexy.”
Via dev.opera.com
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“Grammar nazis are so last century. Welcome, friends, to the brave new world of the typography nazi.”
Via www.recedinghairline.co.uk
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“That’s the mark of someone who thinks seriously about their craft and strives to do it better.”
Via meyerweb.com
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“That typography and choosing type is not a science trammeled by axioms and rules is a cause to rejoice.”
Via ilovetypography.com
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“One time is too many”
Via www.nytimes.com
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“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like.”
Via daringfireball.net
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“If we call ourselves professionals, we owe it to our clients, their clients, and ourselves, to do our job properly. A chef must care about health, a builder must care about safety, and we must care about accessibility.”
Via www.sitepoint.com