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Design Quotes by Jeffrey Zeldman
- 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…
- 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.
More Design Quotes
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
- You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. — Douglas Adams
- Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks