A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores.
Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.
Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.
Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.
Websites should look good from the inside and out.
Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.
I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.
I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.
Web design is something that's super technical but can be super tedious if you have to deal with asshole clients.
I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.
The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.
I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.
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