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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
#Design
#Easy
#Language
#New
#Web
When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Clients
#How
#Media
#Studio
#Tried
Amazon doesn't want to give Apple a cut of its media sales, so Apple won't let Amazon sell products in its apps.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Apple
#Give
#Media
#Sales
#Want
I spent all day in front of a digital screen, but I'm about to curl up with a book.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#About
#Book
#Day
#Digital
#Up
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
#Creation
#Digital
#Long
#Websites
#Will
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.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Better
#Care
#don't Care
#Fool
#Never
There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Agreement
#Filmmaking
#Frame
#Recording
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.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Design
#Me
#Never
#Past
#See
Dropbox, with its emphasis on good old-fashioned hierarchies, is superb at automatically saving one original of each photo I take, whether shot with a phone or a fancy camera. No loops, no duplicates, no confusion.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Camera
#Confusion
#Good
#Phone
#Shot
The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Campaign
#Code
#First
#Place
#Upgrade
I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Art
#Different
#Director
#Fail
#Right
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
#Bragging
#Evil
#Fresh
#He
#Marketing
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
#Data
#Page
#Right
#See
#Will
Wildly successful sites such as Flickr, Twitter and Facebook offer genuinely portable social experiences, on and off the desktop. You don't even have to go to Facebook or Twitter to experience Facebook and Twitter content or to share third-party web content with your Twitter and Facebook friends.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Content
#Experience
#Friends
#Go
#Social
I was in love with HTML and certain that the whole world was about to learn it, ushering in a new era of DIY media, free expression, peace and democracy and human rights worldwide. That part didn't work out so well, although the kids prefer YouTube to TV, so that's something.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Democracy
#Love
#Peace
#Work
#World
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
- Jeffrey Zeldman
#Architecture
#Information
#Long
#Time
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