Bruno Maag Quotes

We have thought carefully about how our use of typography, colour, and images can support and enhance 'Guardian' journalism. We have introduced a font called Guardian Headline that is simple, confident, and impactful.

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts - works just as good for a 'N.Y. Times' op-ed as a screenplay or a short story.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

I feel like movies are presents, and credits and fonts are bows and wrapping paper. I like everything to feel like it was given a lot of time. I hate it when I watch movies, and it seems like they just went and picked a font and, like, called it a day.

Of course Airbnb made mistakes the first year! Some came from our own preconceptions. When we started, we designed our interface for ourselves, Internet-savvy twentysomethings. We never considered the role of good eyesight in our interface - font size, vernacular; it all matters.

In art school, you learn that design is much more than the look and feel of something - it's the whole experience.

A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.

No one cares about your logo, nor the font size that's on your site.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to.

Legibility, in practice, amounts simply to what one is accustomed to. But this is not to say that because we have got used to something demonstrably less legible than something else would be if we could get used to it, we should make no effort to scrap the existing thing. This was done by the Florentines and Romans of the fifteenth century; it requires simply good sense in the originators & good will in the rest of us.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.

I have a background in graphic design and have been designing t-shirt graphics for years.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.

To me, 'design thinking' is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It's consideration for the person you're designing for.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

I often say that 'Design Matters' began in February 2005 with an idea and a telephone line.

Type is your brand.

We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.

The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.