“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
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“Design is not just what it looks like. Design is how it works.”
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“You Can Find Inspiration in Everything*: (*and if you can't, look again)”
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“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”
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“Never use the eye-catching homepage elements, like extra fancy main menus, in subpage designs”
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“Only look back to learn something for use in future designs”
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“Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.”
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“Don't try to be original, try to be good.”
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“You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new. ”
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“You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”
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“In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.”
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“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ”
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“Always demo before publishing, no matter how good it looks”
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“Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.”
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“You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”
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“Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.”
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“Always give a little more than you promise.”
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“To dismiss front-end design as mere ‘icing’ is to jeopardize the success of any site.”
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“To attempt mastery of everything inevitably makes us mediocre in many areas.”
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“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.”
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“Design pages for scanning, not reading.”
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“If you work hard to produce something amazing, great connections would probably come as a result.”
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“Make 'coming soon' pages more interactive so users will actually return.”
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“Touch; bright backgrounds will hide fingerprints better than dark backgrounds.”
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“Design trends don't work for every design.”
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“It takes more than simply flipping an object upside down to make a mirrored image.”
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“Use landscape or portrait photo formats in web design. Weird sizes will make your users dizzy.”
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“People ignore design that ignores people.”
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“In design nothing can be said to be certain, except eye candy and following new trends”
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“Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.”
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“Make the buttons on the screen look so good you’ll want to lick them. ”
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“Constantly push your boundaries and comfort zone.”