Design is about making something easy to use, or easy to understand. Dean Vipond.
The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish. David Foster Wallace.
I tell you what though, when you are reading negativity towards your own work it hurts but the feeling you get is worse when you agree with what people are saying. In a nutshell, I called things wrong and for a man who spends his entire day keeping up to speed on what’s cutting edge, I was completely embarrassed.
Due to the investment of time and money, I had to sit things out, which wouldn’t be easy especially as FWA had been awarding Flash sites, almost exclusively, for ten years. It would take a further year of proactively finding amazing class="sc">HTML websites to showcase before people realized that the class="sc">F in class="sc">FWA did not stand for Flash.
Rob Ford.
You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory, the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness, but the essence is timeless. Massimo Vignelli.
Computers or even AI cannot understand the context of a piece of design, so it cannot make the accurate adjustments that a designer can make. Until a computer can make a rational judgement about an isolated component within the context of an entire visual language, it cannot be relied on to make complex design decisions.
We shouldn’t rely on computers to do all the thinking for us, we should rely on our eyes and our instincts. Designers hone their instincts with every working day, so we should trust them, even when a computer tells us otherwise.
Luke Jones.
Saya menghindari opini politis ataupun sosial agar tetap waras. Pilihan saya sejak lama adalah untuk melihat Indonesia sebagai dagelan terlucu yang pernah ada. Bahwa saya keturunan Cina, saya rasa pengaruhnya lebih ke etika kerja Sajama Cut yang cukup brutal. Marcel Thee.
We have one (quote) for every day of the working week:
Paul McNeil.
☞ Measure twice, cut once.
☞ Less is less.
☞ Design = order x time.
☞ Rigour, vigour, bigger.
☞ Proofread, then proofread again. and again.
☞ If you see a fork in the road, take it.
☞ Make more mistakes.
One of the best ways I’ve found to provide digestible examples for nonindustry folk is how I approach my portfolio. If our strength lies in our comprehensive knowledge of the web and problem-solving skills, but our portfolio is limited to screenshots, we’re selling ourselves short. A web designer’s portfolio should be a set of case studies rather than just a gallery of images.
Write about your process, your unique way of addressing each client’s needs. If you’re like me and spend more time typing than speaking out loud, this can be a valuable exercise. This sort of debriefing helps me when I need to verbalize the intricacies of my work in person to actual human beings.
Trent Walton.
Documentation and discussion have helped advance the industry, bringing with them numerous medical breakthroughs as exciting for the doctors as they are for the patients who benefit from them.
Those of us who build for the web know how exciting it is to contribute to advancement. I can easily recall the sense of wonder I felt working with web fonts for the first time or seeing a site I built reshape effortlessly into an iPhone screen.
We become impassioned, bursting at the seams with new ideas to share with our peers and clients. Of course, our peers will understand what we are saying; our clients may not. People are unlikely to respect what they don’t understand. This is why we need to develop an entirely new craft: explaining the complexities of what we do in ways people can understand.
Trent Walton.
We must articulate what we do through our own successful results. It’s as simple as this: Do your best work, then talk about it. Take jobs that provide opportunities to solve unique problems or ones that require technical innovation, and grind it out. Half the jobs I get into start with no clear way from point A to B. It’s a struggle, but it pays off when I get to contribute to the work of my peers and help shape the future of the web. Trent Walton.