Mike Davidson is an American designer best known for his work as the chief designer at Twitter. His innovative design principles and focus on user-centered experiences have left a lasting impact on the digital design industry. Davidson's ability to combine creativity with functionality has inspired designers to think critically about the user experience and how technology can be both aesthetically pleasing and intuitive. His work continues to push the boundaries of digital design, encouraging others to blend art with innovation.

"Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file."



"You can have information and ease of use and have artistic integrity at the same time. The art of being a good Web designer is getting yourself into that middle ground and treating it as a final destination instead of as a compromise."



"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."



"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."



"Because the competitive landscape of the web is such that the site which looks and works best gets the most traffic, developers and designers put a premium on the presentation of that content and let structural markup take a back seat."



"We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood."



"If I was designing a web site for elementary school children, I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools."



"We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns."

