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

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

“At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.”

“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.”

“I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.”

“With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.”

“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.”

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

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

“Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.”