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Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
Jeffrey Veen
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Math is easy; design is hard.
Jeffrey Veen
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I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.
Jeffrey Veen
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Day by day, the number of devices, platforms,
and browsers that need to work with your site grows.
Responsive web design represents a fundamental shift
in how we'll build websites for the decade to come.
Jeffrey Veen
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Difficult situations breed astonishing results.
Jeffrey Veen
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Good design can't fix broken business models.
Jeffrey Veen
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To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.
Jeffrey Veen
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Web-site creation isn't something you learn once and then check off on your to do list.
Jeffrey Veen
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Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.
Jeffrey Veen
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One of the things I firmly believe about seemingly risky decisions is that you can't fully imagine how things can be better while you're in the thing you don't quite like.
Jeffrey Veen