“There are no pop-ups, no banners, no X buttons to look for. When you cut to the chase – and give control back to the users – they’re more likely to engage.”— Roy Schwartz, adexchanger.com
“We will increasingly have less and less advertising. We are so disrespecting people’s time that they are spending more and more time in advertising-free environments. You’re asking me to give you my time for less than minimum wages, which is not worth my time.”— Rishad Tobaccowala, mediapost.com
“To gain several minutes of user attention, you must clearly communicate your value proposition within 10 seconds.”— Jakob Nielsen, nngroup.com
“Let’s try it in green or can we use a slider instead are potentially hazardous forms of feedback considering marketable solutions don't come from the UI.”— Patrick Algrim, algrim.co
“Being a UX designer includes understanding how humans think and feel, and using that power for good.”— Becca Kennedy, whatusersdo.com
“Q: What do you do for living? A: I draw boxes. Sometimes I put text in them too.”— Ben Cline, twitter.com
“Overflow menus seem like the perfect solution. Designers can ‘take away’ complexity and leave just the really important bits. You can quickly and easily create a clean looking user interface. The trouble with overflow menus is that you didn’t actually take anything away, you just obnoxiously obfusca…”— Daniel Burka, medium.com
“Like just about anything, overflow menus have a time and a place where they don’t totally suck. But, the appropriate place for an overflow menu is probably not your project and probably not the spot you’re thinking about. So, think long and hard before you resort to using one.”— Daniel Burka, 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
“Overflow menus seem like the perfect solution. Designers can ‘take away’ complexity and leave just the really important bits. You can quickly and easily create a clean looking user interface. The trouble with overflow menus is that you didn’t actually take anything away, you just obnoxiously obfusca…”— Daniel Burka, medium.com
“I thought Elm was a pure, functional language, but this is one hell of a side effect.”— Mike Anderson, mkndrsn.com
“The world still needs some fucking webmasters. We might not all be making websites professionally anymore. But we should keep making websites. The passion, the freedom, the joy: we need to pass this on.”— Justin Jackson, justinjackson.ca
“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
“Instead it is more common for designers to spend the vast majority of their time creating artifacts which are of no tangible value and which are unrepresentative of reality.”— Adam Michela, quora.com
“Few know how to answer & evangelize this well why this #product why this #experience what #motivation #UX”— Ha Phan, twitter.com
“Some designers aren’t allowed to talk to customers. Some designers don’t sit side-by-side with engineers and product managers.”— Jack Hallahan, medium.com
“One of the clearest signs of a competent UI designer is restraint. It’s about knowing the capabilities of your chosen platform and then not using them (until the perfect opportunity arises).”— Sophie Paxton, medium.com
“I’ve found myself more and more rating both my feelings and the importance of any particular decision on that same one-to-ten scale.”— Cap Watkins, blog.capwatkins.com