“[Digital] objects constrained using sensible, physical rules, help establish a clear model.”— Pasquale D’Silva, medium.com
“Language is supposed to illuminate meaning, but it doesn’t always work that way. As usage evolves, definitions become unmoored, and different people start using the same word to mean entirely different things. I think ‘brand’ is one of those words that is widely used but unevenly understood.”— Jerry McLaughlin, forbes.com
“If you’ve ever accidentally ruined your carefully created Symbols because you moved a layer that you hadn’t realized was part of a Symbol, you’ll be happy to know that this is now a thing of the past.”— Sketch, blog.sketchapp.com
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“Today, consumers’ attention may be the scarcest resource in this new world order. Without gatekeepers, anyone can create and broadcast media. As a result, consumers are over-messaged and exhausted.”— Timothy Ingram, medium.com
“Colors have different effects on people based on their personal preference, cultural upbringing, and experiences. As such, in order to understand how people will react to your design, you need to identify your audience.”— Jonathan Z. White, medium.freecodecamp.com
“Serenity and Rose Quartz sound like perfumes from a Parisian boutique, but they’re actually just the names of Pantone’s lame ass colors of the year.”— Steven Markow, medium.com
“should designers be coders? should design coder? hould des coder hou des oder houdesoer hodesor hodor”— Frank Chimero, twitter.com
“Design doesn't need to be delightful for it to work, but that's like saying food doesn't need to be tasty to keep us alive.”— Frank Chimero, amazon.com
“Projects that seem cold or excessively composed are more indicative of a lack of understanding than a mark of professionalism.”— Frank Chimero, amazon.com
“As a type designer I sort of see this as if everyone in the world decided in 2010 that Helvetica is going to be the only acceptable rendering of the alphabet. The Apple emoji style is one choice, not the only choice.”— Colin M. Ford, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“Design has always been largely about systems, and how to create products in a scalable and repeatable way. From Pantone colors to Philips screws, these systems enable us to manage the chaos and create better products. Digital products are perhaps the most fertile ground for implementing these system…”— Kari Saarinen, airbnb.design
“I guess if you draw one smiley face, you get the other smiley faces, but a lot of emojis don’t follow each other as formally as type does quite yet. The main suggestion I have is to choose a couple essential emojis from each set to develop a style.”— TypeThursday, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“You want to know what are the norms so you don’t design confusion. But then there’s some beautiful emojis that you’re free to do whatever you want. For instance, like the alien emoji. If you look across all of the sets that it exists in, there’s a wonderful, weird variety of them.”— TypeThursday, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“Today emoji are used and loved by a lot of people. They’re internationally successful for the same reasons they were successful in Japan in the late 90’s and early 00’s—in addition to being useful shortcuts for nouns for everything from “Partly Sunny” to “Gas Station”, they act as emotional intermed…”— Colin M. Ford, Colin M. Ford, medium.com
“If they complain about the price, they don’t get the value. A sale is a mutual exchange; your customers don’t buy a widget or a service, your customers pay for value, a desired outcome.”— Anis Qizilbash, blog.freelancersunion.org
“Looking back, we chuckle. We’re glad the Internet Wayback Machine hasn’t exposed the Angelfire or Geocities webpages of our past.”— Jason Winter, blog.invisionapp.com
“Unlike 30 years ago, the internet today can stream video, yet the animated GIF has withstood the test of time.”— Jason Winter, blog.invisionapp.com
“Apple released an update to iTunes today that's supposed to give it 'a simpler design', supposedly making it easier to navigate between sections to find what you're looking for. To do that, it brings back an old iTunes standby: the lefthand navigation bar, which disappeared a while back.”— Jacob Kastrenakes, theverge.com