Jeffrey Zeldman quotes

Test everything, including assumptions. (Jeffrey Zeldman)

Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You'll make mistakes along the way, but that's where growth and forgiveness come in.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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

Jeffrey Zeldman

Thanks to budget shortfalls and format wars, our traditional media, literature, and arts are perishing faster than ever before. Nothing conceived by the human mind, except Heaven and nuclear winter, is eternal.

Jeffrey Zeldman

There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.

Jeffrey Zeldman

The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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

Jeffrey Zeldman

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

Jeffrey Zeldman

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Content informs design; design without content is decoration. (Jeffrey Zeldman)

Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

Jeffrey Zeldman

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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

Jeffrey Zeldman

Now, not every blog post or 'Top 10 Ways to Make Money on the Internet' piece deserves to live forever. But there's gold among the dross, and there are web publications that we would do well to preserve for historical purposes.

Jeffrey Zeldman

I was a journalist, but I was starving. And I've written fiction, but I couldn't get a publisher. So, I was basically a very frustrated creative person working in advertising, and even there, I have a great idea that client won't buy it.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Validation is easy - you run your site through a validator, and it's either valid or it isn't. The rest of the stuff, such as whether my logo or the biggest headline should be the h1 in my HTML, isn't so easy and is subject to interpretation.

Jeffrey Zeldman

I like files. I like editing a CSS file without necessarily having to edit an HTML file. I like fixing a problem by replacing a corrupted file with a clean one. Maybe I'm set in my ways, but I don't consider it a hardship to open a folder or replace a file.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

Jeffrey Zeldman

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Marketing is not bragging, and touting one's wares is not evil. The baker in the medieval town square must holler, 'Fresh rolls!' if he hopes to feed the townfolk. (Jeffrey Zeldman)

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

Jeffrey Zeldman

In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

Jeffrey Zeldman

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

Jeffrey Zeldman

Many thought it was a fool's errand - that the browser companies were never going to listen to us. Others argued that, 'Users don't care if you use Web standards.' Well, of course they don't. They just know that your site works better.

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Occupation: American Businessman
Born: January 12, 1955
Quotes count: 29

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