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“ The city which lays claim to being the breakfast capital of the world is finally waking up to the oleaginous joys of the full English

— The Guardian on New York embracing the full English breakfast

“ Tools such as the social graph API and data formats such as microformats don’t degrade privacy—on the web, there is no real privacy in obscurity—but as designers and developers, we need to find better ways to encourage users to make informed decisions about privacy. Most social media site approaches to privacy (and persona projection) are inadequate and unsophisticated compared to the ways in which we deal with privacy in the real world.

— Glenn Jones in A List Apart on public profiles across the web

“ One finishing touch that I especially appreciated was a set of alternate punctuation, designed to align with the numbers and the caps. In most fonts, the dashes and the colon are positioned to align with the lowercase; in some fonts they’re raised, so they center with the caps. Tungsten includes both kinds, accessible not only through the “all caps” OpenType feature, but through the “stylistic alternate” feature as well. I found this especially easy to use when setting complicated situations like the one above, where the colon is centered on the height of the figures, but the en dash aligns with the lowercase.

— Brian Hennings of H&FJ on designing the Tungsten sample art

“ Interesting stuff Thom … but this abstract bleepy wailing could really do with some funky slap bass

— The Guardian on Thom Yorke and Flea forming a supergroup

“ relegate them into a tier of Content-Level Support as opposed to Design Support

— TobyJoe on dropping support for IE6 users

“ Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

— Charlie Brooker on Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?

“ When Europeans come to America they are supposed to be divided into New York or Los Angeles types.

— Stephen Fry on A Tale of Two Cities

“ not so much kerning as tangling in this case

— Aegir on Third and Seventh films

“ No design survives contact with the user. Once users get their hands on it, they break it and use it in ways the designer couldn’t have imagined.

— Josh Porter on the Agency Problem

“ The mission of the Fonts Working Group, part of the Fonts Activity, is to allow wider use of fonts on the Web by identifying a font format that can be supported by all user agents, balancing font vendor concerns with the needs of authors and users and the simplicity of implementation.

— Fonts Working Group charter

“ Last night a Baseline Grid saved my life

— Ben Terrett on designing Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008

“ A journey that long almost makes it a day out, albeit a day out where you spend most of the day underground and very unhappy. It’s the equivalent of me sitting in Oxford and saying “I think I’ll just pop to London Paddington for a coffee”, and to get there I have to go via a working tin mine.

— Paul Haine on travelling by tube across London in search of a non-family friendly coffee shop

“ we need to get Britain talking about UX if we want the UX field to be talking about Britain

— Cennydd Bowles on Complex inferiority: user experience in the UK

“ The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium are new, but the craft is ancient.

— John Gruber on getting paid to blog

“ Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

— Steve Jobs on ‘design’ in the New York Times