Regarding Design

6. I wanted to try something different.

7. I saw a design on Tumblr that looks like this.

8. Whitespace looks better. It looks so clean!

9. We’re industry leaders. Sometimes you just have to take risks.

10. That must be an older version you’re seeing.

11. I [got a Masters/did online training/saw a tweet], so trust me on this.

12. I just read* a great article on Medium about this (*saw the title).

13. We’ll just revisit this after the launch (we won’t).

14. Our team loved the design.

15. [The most important stakeholder] loved the design.

16. Dribbble and Behance loved the design.

17. The old man sitting on the couch with me at Starbucks loved the design.

18. We can go with function or form, but not both.

19. We can change it, I’m not married to it (our honeymoon is tomorrow).

20. It’s like Uber, but for [super specific, unrelated B2B software app].

21. It’s like [app no one has heard of], but for [some worse idea].

22. We’ll just put some charts there.

Regarding Animation

23. It’s a delighter!

24. It’s not choppy on my screen.

25. GIFs are all the rage right now.

26. All the best companies use parallax.

27. Don’t you think it’ll look boring without it?

28. I’m not worried. A dev should be able to implement this pretty easily.

29. But if I make it a PDF then you won’t see the animation…

30. Computers are fast! Page size and load time aren’t an issue anymore.

Regarding Fonts

31. You must not have [that obscure font I used] installed.

32. Microsoft is notorious for bad font rendering. People don’t use Windows.

33. I can’t share TypeKit fonts, so you’ll have to wait until we present it.

34. The sharpness is probably just too high on your screen.

35. We won’t look premium if we don’t use [some obscure font].

36. Too small? How can you not read that?

37. The text is already dark enough. I like it #FAFAFA.

Regarding Colors