“You can only iterate on something after it’s been released. Prior to release, you’re just making the thing. Even if you change it, you’re just making it. Iterating is when you change/improve after it’s out. So if you want to iterate, SHIP.”— Jason Fried, twitter.com
“Front-end design must be a core part of the design process. Silo’d web design doesn’t work.”— Jeffrey Zeldman, twitter.com
“We’ve heard Japanese users described products as ‘unnatural’, ‘foreign’, and ‘suspicious.’ Pinterest, in Japan since 2013, began refining Japanese type last year after an employee described their homepage as ‘when someone tries to overcome a language barrier by talking louder.”— Eiko Nagase, medium.com
“Ultimately, you can succeed as a product but still fail as a business if you find yourself in this trap. Some problems persist because they’re quite simply not worth solving.”— Des Traynor, blog.intercom.io
“She died doing what she loved: reminding designers that a segmented control that underlines the active section is not a native iOS component”— Rebecca Slatkin, twitter.com
“It was during a weekly design critique that it became clear we had nothing to align on. Our feedback was nothing more than personal opinions based on some new design fad. This led to frustration for the designer presenting, and left the team with a feeling of uncertainty once the session was over. S…”— Stanley Wood, medium.com
“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-Exupéry, medium.com
“You need to breakup with your habit of pushing pixel perfect designs. You should be able to ship something quick and dirty just because sometimes not doing so will impact your business. Remember that nothing is set in stone and you can always come back to fix it later.”— Kenneth, medium.com
“There’s the whole Buddhist thing about the essence of a bowl being its emptiness—that’s why it’s useful. Its emptiness allows it to hold something. I guess that means that design must talk about something else. If you make design about design, you’re just stacking bowls, and that’s not what bowls ar…”— Frank Chimero, thegreatdiscontent.com
“Developers don’t explore well-designed apps and sites to learn how to build apps and sites. They spend their time learning from demos and tutorials, which are written by other developers who are trying to explain complex coding concepts, by using contrived, ridiculous examples.”— Antoine Valot, medium.com
“When you’ve worked on it long enough that you start seeing its fundamental flaws: Problems that are not about how it’s been put together (improvable), but about how it works in the absolute (intrinsic).”— Antoine Valot, medium.com
“Back in 1957, a guy named C. Northcote Parkinson observed that people often give disproportionate focus to trivial projects at work. For instance, Parkinson observed a team that was creating a nuclear power plant. During the planning stages, a big debate broke out about the design of the shed where…”— Daniel Burka, library.gv.com
“If your friend was standing next to you and their hair was on fire, that fire would be the only thing they really cared about in this world. It wouldn’t matter if they were hungry, just suffered a bad breakup, or were running late to a meeting—they’d prioritize putting the fire out. If you handed th…”— Michael Seibel, themacro.com
“Participating on someone else’s operating system means you’re on their turf. Resisting the local conventions and importing design from a different operating system is as offensive as an American going to a far-off country and expecting everyone to speak English and accept U.S. cash.”— Jason Snell, macworld.com
“The social media company will soon stop counting photos and links as part of its 140-character limit for messages, according to a person familiar with the matter. The change could happen in the next two weeks, said the person who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t yet public. Links cur…”— Sarah Frier, bloomberg.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
“We came to the conclusion that there were millions of people that want a better and more personalized search experience than currently exists, but are averse to check-ins and location sharing.”— Sam Brown, medium.com
“For iOS, you’ll need to export at .5x (1x actual), 1x (2x actual), and 1.5x (3x actual). Does that make any sense at all?”— Kurt Varner, medium.com
“If you’re designing at anything but 1x, you’ve decided to embark on a never ending journey of tediously converting your pixels for other device resolutions.”— Kurt Varner, medium.com
“Your Product Hunt profile says a lot about you. It highlights all the things you’ve upvoted, submitted, made, and collected. You might also find a mysterious emoji next to your name”— Ryan Hoover, medium.com