#to

We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list. ↗

— Brad Garrett

#cops #firemen #list #our #should

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#consultants #day-to-day #direction #experience #get

Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#executive #executive power #fathers #foretold #loyalty

Building technical systems involves a lot of hard work and specialized knowledge: languages and protocols, coding and debugging, testing and refactoring. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#building #coding #debugging #hard #hard work

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#actually #architectures #convince #implement #into

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#behave #design #every #how #incorporating

Besides, Weebles are too hard to draw - they just end up looking like eggs, not people. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#draw #eggs #end #hard #just

But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#also #communication #despite #forget #handy

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#architect #book #colleagues #felt #first

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others. ↗

— Leif Garrett

#leave #others #stay #top #up