Web Design Quotes:

Never fall in love with an idea. They're whores: if the one you're with isn't doing the job, there's always, always, always another.

- Chip Kidd

source: Chip Kidd (2008). “The Cheese Monkeys”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

topic: Falling In Love, Jobs, Technology, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

- Paul Cookson

topic: Technology, Design, Employee, Inspiring Design, Web Design

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

source: "Infographics and marketing: the good, the bad and the ugly" by Freddie Ossberg, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2013.

topic: Design, Absence, Decoration, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

topic: Inspiring, Success, Writing, Software Design, Inspirational Design

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

- Pierre Bonnard

topic: Death, Color, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

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 cure it somehow with design.

- Massimo Vignelli

topic: Fashion, Fighting, Doctors, Inspiration And Art, Inspirational Design

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

topic: Character, Design, Designer, Web Design

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 over time while always retaining their identity.

- Jeffrey Zeldman

topic: Voice, Design, Identity, Web Design, Facilitate

What's the number-one thing people do on the Web? They read. Words and numbers are the raw material from which the vast majority of webpages are built. If reading is the primary activity on the Web, then readability is a primary function of Web design.

- Gerry McGovern

topic: Reading, Numbers, People, Web Design

Websites should look good from the inside and out.

- Paul Cookson

topic: Technology, Design, Looks, Inspiring Design, Web Design

Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.

- Neville Brody

topic: Design, Digital, Painting, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

Day by day, the number of devices, platforms, and browsers that need to work with your site grows. Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.

- Jeffrey Veen

topic: Numbers, Design, Needs, Web Design, Browsers

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

- Ellen Lupton

source: Ellen Lupton (2014). “Thinking with Type”, p.91, Chronicle Books

topic: Design, Spacing, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design, Web Design

Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

- Paul Cookson

topic: Sports, Technology, Car, Sports Cars, Web Design

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

- Matt Mickiewicz

topic: Design, Development, Firsts, Hard Core, Web Design

The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

- Jakob Nielsen

topic: Attitude, Years, People, Web Design, Prevailing

I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.

- Jessica Hische

source: Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

topic: College, Design, Typography, Generalists, Web Design

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

- Jared Spool

topic: Giving, Design, Superpower, Inspiring Design, Web Design

It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

- Paula Scher

topic: Mistake, Order, Design, Inspirational Design, Inspirational Graphic Design

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.

- Biz Stone

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Book, Design, Community, Web Design, Graphic Designer

I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online, the architecture, the web design, because I am somebody that loves making things, making experiences, creating things that people love to engage with.

- Christopher Bailey

source: Source: www.theblondesalad.com

topic: Creating Things, People, Design, Web Design

I always love design but the more I designed for clients, the less I liked the process of designing for them. I do lettering and illustration for money, which clients don't mess with too much and web design for fun.

- Jessica Hische

source: Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

topic: Fun, Illustration, Design, Web Design

Web design is something that's super technical but can be super tedious if you have to deal with asshole clients.

- Jessica Hische

source: Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

topic: Design, Clients, Deals, Web Design

When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move stuff around in Photoshop, I put together a really quick CSS doc making my changes.

- Jessica Hische

source: Source: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

topic: Moving, Writing, Design, Web Design, Photoshop

I do some freelance web design stuff. I taught a directing class for this not-for-profit organization here in Chicago a couple months ago. I wrote a thing for Filmmaker Magazine a couple months ago. Occasionally, I'll get to go speak to students at a university and make a little money that way, which is great. I really like doing that.

- Joe Swanberg

source: Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

topic: Couple, Class, Organization, Web Design

I was doing a lot of web design at the time. And anybody that has an agent thinks, "Why do I need an agent?" Maybe it's a little different as an actor - of course you need an agent - but any kind of agency that's selling something for you, you think, "Why can't I sell this myself? It doesn't make sense."

- Jeff Vespa

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Thinking, Agency, Design, Web Design, Selling Something