“The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is to cure it somehow, with design.”
“When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
“Sometimes we can be so focused on getting the site ready and live, that we lose sight of what happens after it’s launched, and how it’s going to be maintained. A simple web style guide can make all the difference.”
“Building for the web has become a journey with infinite potential for forks and bumps in the road.”
“We’re not designing pages, we’re designing systems of components.”
“The web’s greatest strength, I believe, is often seen as a limitation, as a defect. It is the nature of the web to be flexible, and it should be our role as designers and developers to embrace this flexibility and produce pages which, by being flexible, are accessible to all.”
“It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.””
“The more users’ expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.””
“The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect.”
