7 Posts in “Quotes”
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More Ammunition for My Manifesto
There must be something in the air. My Manifesto was a revelation for me — it gave me very good reason to launch a personal website that most designers would call unfinished, or at least unfinished-looking. Now Mat Marquis has...
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Ammunition for My Manifesto
My Manifesto was a call-to-action to remove complexity and get back down to the basics. In some ways, it is the art of defining what something is by removing what it is not. In the case of a website, what...
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Lessons on design from Charles Moore
I like to compare web design to architecture. I think it is an apt metaphor and will expand upon that idea later in a full article. For now, though, I’d like to share a quote from Mark Simon about the...
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Stop using the term “Mobile”
I wrote this in 2013, and am keeping it published it because I find it interesting as a historical artifact — this is what we were concerned about 4 years after the iPhone made web design a lot more complicated. ‘Mobile’...
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The Web is Responsive by Default
If you think about it, responsive layout is not a new thing. Open a simple HTML file in a web browser, and the content automatically adapts to fit the width of that browser. The web is responsive on its own...
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The Challenge of Digital Patina
I challenge designers and developers to start to integrate “digital patina” into their application design and UIs. What is digital patina? Let me give you a few examples: Your smartphone’s homescreen may display “trails” from where your finger has touched...
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Mobile Means more than Smartphones
Mobile is not really a thing. As much as we talk about it, what we are really discussing is the way in which users of websites are freer than ever to use a wide array of devices to connect to...