markboulton’s Twitter Archive

Popular Tweets

A list of popular tweets by retweets and favorites.

1. I’m still flabbergasted at how many orgs require you to be in an office every day and then you sit there with headphones on not speaking.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 621 Retweets ❤️ 1,684 Favorites 2017 Sep 7 Mood 0
2. Every web designer should spend an evening in the pub with a designer from another industry.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 236 Retweets ❤️ 66 Favorites 2012 Sep 27 Mood 0
3. 'Move fast and break things'. Nope. Don't. How about: 'Slow down and show some responsibility'. Admittedly, as slogans go, it's not really t-shirt material.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 226 Retweets ❤️ 724 Favorites 2018 May 30 Mood 0
4. As of today, you can download my book for free: designingfortheweb.co.uk
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 161 Retweets ❤️ 156 Favorites 2014 Apr 8 Mood +1 🙂
5. ‘Teach kids to code’. How about: ‘teach kids to design’. Art and design is on the decline. Especially in education. Shall we fix that?
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 145 Retweets ❤️ 603 Favorites 2018 Aug 26 Mood 0
6. You can still make great looking accessible and usable web pages with simple HTML and basic CSS. You know that, right? No javascript. No web fonts. No Grid, or Flexbox. Just get the basics right: good typography, great content. Design for the medium not against it.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 128 Retweets ❤️ 721 Favorites 2020 May 6 Mood +7 🙂
7. Naughty @British_Airways. Went back to book a flight, saw it was £300 more expensive, emptied cache, revisited, back to original price!
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 114 Retweets ❤️ 45 Favorites 2014 Oct 3 Mood 0
8. One last time. HTML is not code. It's markup. Just like typesetting. Which is firmly in the realm of designers. Learn it, mmmmmk.
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 102 Retweets ❤️ 128 Favorites 2015 Sep 2 Mood +2 🙂
9. The first website is now back on its original URL. info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
   Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 98 Retweets ❤️ 18 Favorites 2013 Apr 30 Mood 0
10. Designers: never, ever be a pair of hands. If a client says 'just do it this way'. It's your duty to ask why. If no response, then walk away
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 90 Retweets ❤️ 34 Favorites 2011 Aug 17 Mood -1 🙁
11. I'm giving away my book for free! Read online, download PDF, ePub and Kindle: designingfortheweb.co.uk
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 84 Retweets ❤️ 97 Favorites 2014 Apr 10 Mood +1 🙂
12. My book, 'Designing for the Web' is now online, completely FREE! http://bit.ly/at7DcI #fivesimplesteps #mbd
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 76 Retweets ❤️ 43 Favorites 2010 Mar 12 Mood +1 🙂
13. Remote and distributed work is: 1. More inclusive (of care givers, less able, chronically ill etc.) 2. More productive. 3. Safer. (Less illness). 4. Offers more balance. 5. Smarter (allows you to hire outside of where you are) 6. Cheaper (lower overheads)
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 75 Retweets ❤️ 271 Favorites 2020 Feb 27 Mood +2 🙂
14. I have a dream: Rethinking CSS Grids. markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/rethinking-css-grids
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 71 Retweets ❤️ 84 Favorites 2011 Aug 8 Mood +1 🙂
15. The single biggest mistake I see with #rwd is designers don't alter vertical space when horizontal space is reduced.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 71 Retweets ❤️ 70 Favorites 2012 Nov 12 Mood -2 🙁
16. Designer + Front-end Developer partnerships are the product team equivalent of Art Director + Copywriter in advertising. Give them the right brief, the right support, space and time, and get the hell out of their way.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 51 Retweets ❤️ 299 Favorites 2021 Jun 11 Mood -2 🙁
17. UK government approves a 50% cut in arts and design education. Dear government. Who do you think is at the core of the digital programmes that save this county so much money and make amazing services for its citizens? What education do you think they had?
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 45 Retweets ❤️ 193 Favorites 2021 Jul 22 Mood +9 🙂
18. Whilst it is a challenge to work with a remote distributed team, it's clear to me that the detractors have never worked in a highly functional, remote delivery team before. It works. No question. Just have to right people and the right environment. And make the effort.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 43 Retweets ❤️ 193 Favorites 2018 Nov 13 Mood -1 🙁
19. Quick CSS typography tip. Name your opentype features as variables with sensible comments. Really helps with typesetting and bringing to light those obscure four letter codes.

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 42 Retweets ❤️ 290 Favorites 2021 Jan 5 Mood +2 🙂
20. If anything needs disrupting in this industry it is the rise of Sameism. Just look at this! hyperpixel.io/ I'd love to know why this convergence is happening. It's depressing there is such a lack of diversity in such a creative medium.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 42 Retweets ❤️ 203 Favorites 2019 Mar 26 Mood 0
21. Sad about the demise of Flash today. Feels like the nail in the coffin for a creative-first approach to web design. It was a gateway technology. Making your own things, and distributing them easily, is becoming harder, not easier. RIP Flash. I’m here because of you.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 39 Retweets ❤️ 251 Favorites 2020 Dec 31 Mood 0
22. I think if I ran another company I’d run it entirely remotely. Pretty much no excuse not to do it with the tech we have at our disposal. Better quality of life for employees. More balance. Lower overheads. More implicit trust. What’s not to like?
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 32 Retweets ❤️ 248 Favorites 2019 May 2 Mood +6 🙂
23. As long as I've been a designer I've been exposed to pictures of what a designers desk should look like. Always pristine, curated stationery and books, beautiful ornaments. Mine is – and always will be – a shit tip.
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 22 Retweets ❤️ 404 Favorites 2019 Dec 9 Mood 0
24. After, literally, months of stewing, percolating, research, and experimentation, my new site design is coming together.

    
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 10 Retweets ❤️ 208 Favorites 2020 Sep 4 Mood 0
25. I’m a big fan of pets with ordinary names. The more ordinary, the better. My favourites so far: - Ian (a rather posh looking cat) - Dave (a tiny, tiny dog) - Norman (a tortoise) - Bob (a flouncy goldfish) - Graham (a perky golden retriever) Any other suggestions?
    Permalink On twitter.com ♻️ 9 Retweets ❤️ 206 Favorites 2019 Oct 28 Mood +8 🙂