Jesse James Garrett Quotes

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• Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring.
• Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.
• Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.
• Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of…
• Ajax is an important development for Web applications, and its importance is only going to grow.
• Ajax isn't a technology. It's really several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways.
• As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are…
• At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of…
• Content is often the reason users come to your site.
• But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
• Google is making a huge investment in developing the Ajax approach.
• 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…
• A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer…
• 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…
• My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA…
• 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…
• 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…
• Giving something your time isn't the same as giving it your attention.
• A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you…
• 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…

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