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“Typography exists to honor content”
- The Elements of Typographic Style 77 days ago & tagged as book quote typography -
“People choose not on the basis of what’s most important, but on what’s easiest to evaluate.”
- Easier Is Better Than Better - Smashing Magazine (via gpessia) 86 days ago & tagged as design quote -
“They’re filled with ads and social-media sharing buttons — and more ads. And Google plus-onesies and Facebook likeys. And also more ads. Plus tweet-this-es. Plus ads. (And, under-the-hood, a whole cruise-ship-full of analytics. The page required well-more than 100 http calls.)”
- Please let this not be the future of reading on the web 90 days ago & tagged as quote read web -
“Web design is product design. Drawing a picture of the product is not designing the product. Web design is experience design. Drawing a picture of on-screen content or mechanism behaviors is not designing the experience. The functioning html/css (and sometimes JavaScript) is the design.”
- Design View / Andy Rutledge - Web Design is Product Design 175 days ago & tagged as design quote web design -
“Oh…and please don’t use WordArt. Ever.”
- Design Secrets for Engineers « Pulse News Engineering Blog 181 days ago & tagged as design quote root -
“We can’t define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: “you don’t know what you are talking about!”. The second one says: “what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?””
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics - Richard P. Feynman 198 days ago & tagged as quote Richard Feynman -
“In general, the search for popular is wildly overrated, because it corrupts our work, eats away at our art and makes it likely we’ll compromise to please the anonymous masses.”
- Godin on popularity – Eightface 277 days ago & tagged as popularity quote Seth Godin -
“I’ve heard a lot of people lately asking for specific types of designers. They want “Android Designers” or “Blog Designers” or “OSX Designers.” This is stupid”
- Hire Good Designers 295 days ago & tagged as design quote -
“Web design is responsive design, Responsive Web Design is web design, done right. And that’s why I don’t care about Responsive Web Design”
- I don’t care about Responsive Web Design | Stuff and Nonsense 349 days ago & tagged as quote web design -
“Grids do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the content. We never start with a grid. We start with an idea which is then translated into a form, a structure.”
- Linda van Deursen (via arstype, JSM) 405 days ago & tagged as design quote