American - Businessman | January 12, 1955 -
The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.
Jeffrey Zeldman
LongCreationWillBecomeWebsites
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
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I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.
PastMeThinkDesignWallNever
Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk.
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There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.
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To my way of thinking, passive management of file assets is okay for screwing around with iPads, where we're mainly watching TV on Netflix or obsessive-compulsively checking the popularity of our Instagram uploads.
ManagementThinkingNetflixWayOkay
I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.
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Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.
DataPageWillRightSeeEven
I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.
MathematicsControlDesignCreate
Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.
RestEasyYouRunInterpretation
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
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There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
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