Every Web Designer Needs to Hear.

1. “If you think math is hard, try web design.” ―Trish Parr
2. “There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.” -Milton Glaser
3. “What separates design from art is that design is meant to be… functional.” ― Cameron Moll
4. “If there’s one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it’s that almost any design idea–no matter how appallingly bad–can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.” ― Steve Krug, Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
5. “Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.” ― Paul Cookson
6. “It’s through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.” – Paula Scher
7. “Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.” – Jared Spool, Web Site Usability: A Designer’s Guide
8. “The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.” – Paul Rand
9. “Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.”
― Paul Cookson
10. “Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.” – Joe Sparano
11. “The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design.” – Massimo Vignelli
12. “Websites should look good from the inside and out.” ― Paul Cookson
13. “A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” –Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
14. “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” -Andy Warhol
15. “I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.” -Lindon Leader
16. “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.” – Charles Eames
17. “The idea of waiting for something makes it more fascinating”. – Andy Warhol
18. “Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.” -Jeffrey Zeldman
19. “Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.” – Orson Welles
20. “Technology over technique produces emotionless design.” –Daniel Mall
21. “Never fall in love with an idea. They’re whores. If the one you’re with isn’t doing the job, there’s always, always, always another.” – Chip Kidd
22. “Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.” -Neville Brody
23. “Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.” – Ellen Lupton
24. “Practice safe design: Use a concept.” – Petrula Vrontikis
25. “The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.” – Steve Krug