Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

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• Test everything, including assumptions
• The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words "engage," "honestly," or "marketplace."
• Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.
• Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.
• Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves…
• 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…
• Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the…
• Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
• Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design,…
• Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.
• Whether the task is writing, design, or hanging a picture straight, it is obvious that we do our best work when healthy, rested, refreshed, alert,…
• Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

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