“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”

“Learning to design is, first of all, learning to see. Designers see more, and more precisely. This is a blessing and a curse — once we have learned to see design, both good and bad, we cannot un-see. The downside is that the more you learn to see, the more you lose your ‘common’ eye, the eye you design for. This can be frustrating for us designers when we work for a customer with a bad eye and strong opinions. But this is no justification for designer arrogance or eye-rolling. Part of our job is to make the invisible visible, to clearly express what we see, feel and do. You can‘t expect to sell what you can’t explain.”

“The people we pretend at, they're already in us. That's why we pretend them in the first place.”

“The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them. We are not meant to go through this life alone.”

“The sad thing is that many of us come to Christ because we are sinners, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to pretend that we are not!”

“They where like so many of the adults around us, content to pretend that all was well....but we knew better”