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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.
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"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."

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"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."

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"Writing old school HTML code was never very much fun but now it's getting downright tedious for most people."

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"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."

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"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."

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"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."

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"It's all about people. It's about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress, but in the end it is people that are going to hire you."

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"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."

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"For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care."

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"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."

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"Now that digital lifestyle devices, tablets, wireless phones, and other Internet appliances are beginning to come of age, we need to worry about presenting our content to these devices so that it is optimized for their display capabilities."

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"I vertically center things in tables a lot, and the fact that there is no way to control vertical positioning in divs affects the way we do things across the board."

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"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."

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

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