Design Is How It Works Quotes

#1. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Steve Jobs

#2. When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.

Myfanwy Pavelic

#3. [Science] works! Planes fly. Cars drive. Computers compute. If you base medicine on science, you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science, they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science, they reach the moon. It works ... bitches.

Richard Dawkins

#4. Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end ... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.

Victor Papanek

#5. McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

Dave Eggers

#6. Design is a funny word. Some people think Design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. - Steve Jobs

John Morgan

#7. You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

Matt Smith

#8. The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple ... the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#9. A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and look through architecture books and interior design books. Something about the aesthetics of space and beautiful images works with my brain.

St. Lucia

#10. Design a Life that works for you!

Erini Lytrides-Michael

#11. The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but it has to be sufficiently accurate that it will help in both the learning of the operation and also dealing with novel situations.

Donald A. Norman

#12. Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and to make arrangements and rearrangements among these ingredients.

Paul Rand

#13. I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

Paloma Picasso

#14. I was very much inspired by the things that I'd seen and done in politics, but I was also desperate for a complete departure from the reality of my political experience. 'It's Classified' and my previous book 'Eighteen Acres' are both works of fiction, but if they do seem realistic, it's by design.

Nicolle Wallace

#15. Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

Alexander McQueen

#16. I'll probably paint on this piano after I compose, for that will inspire me to make more awesome works.

Shawn Lukas

#17. But engineers can be really naive about themselves; they think because they can design a pc board and it's right and it works, that everything they do or believe is going to be just that right.

R.A. MacAvoy