That’s the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.

The best way to engage honestly with the marketplace via Twitter is to never use the words “engage,” “honestly,” or “marketplace.”

Comments are proof most people don’t read the articles.

Test everything, including assumptions.

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.

Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.

The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.

A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.