Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey Zeldman is an entrepreneur, web designer, author, podcaster and speaker on web design. He is the founder of A List Apart Magazine and the design studio Happy Cog, and the co-founder of A Book Apart and the design conference An Event Apart. He also co-hosts The Big Web Show, a podcast about the web and online publishing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth12 January 1955
CountryUnited States of America
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Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.
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Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.
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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.
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A good designer has technical knowledge - don't treat her like someone who's there to decide whether something should be pink or orange.
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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.
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The code core of the 2001 browser upgrade campaign was the first instance of capability detection in place of browser detection.