Design Is Quotes

#1. Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.

Tony Fadell

#2. Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

Jonathan Ive

#3. Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer's mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

Laura Busche

#4. Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

Jonathan Barnbrook

#5. It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.

Edwin Schlossberg

#6. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Dieter Rams

#7. A deep understanding of Darwinism teaches us to be wary of the easy assumption that design is the only alternative to chance

Richard Dawkins

#8. I like to preserve simplicity rahter than over-polishing. Fashions are changeable. Taste is in realizing the essence of a place.

Nancy Lancaster

#9. 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

#10. The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

Jonathan Ive

#11. Design is a response to social change.

George Nelson

#12. My biggest role as director on the film is keeping a sense of the overview - how to cast the movie and shoot it in such a way that it will cut together. And how to design the style and tone.

Jay Roach

#13. The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.

C.S. Lewis

#14. Then what exactly is it that you design?"
He gave a proud smile.
"Bitless compositions."
"Bitless? You mean, from bits, the units of information?"
"No, Mr. Tichy, the units of being bitten.

Stanislaw Lem

#15. Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Drew Carey

#16. Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.

Paula Rego

#17. I simply can't look into the heavens on a crisp starry night and somehow bring myself to believe that the gaping expanse that engulfs the whole of me is the product of chance happenstance. And neither can I believe that the gaping expanse that rests within me is anything less.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#18. The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet.

Susan Cain

#19. Good design is good business.

Ian Schrager

#20. I don't design. I get what I think is a big idea, and I put the idea down. I'm not a designer. I'm a communicator.

George Lois

#21. I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing and things like that.

Norman Foster

#22. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.

Kent Ingle

#23. Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#24. I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.

Lady Gaga

#25. Fiction is life by design.

Mary Kittredge

#26. Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

Yves Behar

#27. But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.

Gina McCarthy

#28. Design is an unknown.

Geoffrey Beene

#29. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

Clement Mok

#30. A technical insight is a new way of applying technology or design that either drives down the cost or increases the functions and usability of the product by a significant factor.

Eric Schmidt

#31. Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

Henry Dreyfuss

#32. Graphic Design is the communication framework through which these messages about what the world is now, and what we should aspire to. It's the way they reach us. The designer has an enormous responsibility. Those are the people, you know, putting their wires into our heads

Rick Poynor

#33. Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

Donald A. Norman

#34. Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

Sara Genn

#35. There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Tom Turner

#36. One often sees a call only in retrospect. This too is God's design. God often reinforces our faith after we trust him, not before.

Ravi Zacharias

#37. A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

Nan Fairbrother

#38. The woman of tomorrow will be efficacious, seductive and without contest superior to man. It is for this woman that I conceive my designs.

Paco Rabanne

#39. To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

William Cowper

#40. I discovered at an early age that all I've ever wanted to do is design.

Jonathan Ive

#41. For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

James Wan

#42. Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Chip Kidd

#43. So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

Paul Rand

#44. We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?

John Owen

#45. Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

Jeffrey Zeldman

#46. Intelligent design ideology being promoted today is not science - it is rather the abdication of science.

Steven Weinberg

#47. Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

John Maeda

#48. Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.

David McFadden

#49. Your spiritual developement is a divine path that leads to truth, goodness and beauty;
it is a spiritual path reflecting the unlimited, absolute nature of the universe
and the ultimate grand design of creation.

Morihei Ueshiba

#50. To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Henry Spencer

#51. I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.

Tim Allen

#52. Perfect typography is more a science than an art.

Jan Tschichold

#53. There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

Freeman Dyson

#54. Ordinary effort, ordinary result ... Luck is the residue of design. Be steadfast. The anvil outlasts the hammer.

Ethan Hawke

#55. I wish you didn't have to design so often. Try to do quality and cut down on quantity. I think fashion is very, very important.

Vivienne Westwood

#56. Wellness is not a 'medical fix' but a way of living - a lifestyle sensitive and responsive to all the dimensions of body, mind, and spirit, an approach to life we each design to achieve our highest potential for well-being now and forever.

Greg Anderson

#57. Luck is the residue of design.

John Milton

#58. Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Douglas Crockford

#59. You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.

Richelle Mead

#60. In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

Donald Norman

#61. Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.

Edward Tufte

#62. Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#63. Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Larry Constantine

#64. Developing games for the PC and consoles is all about everything and the kitchen sink. In many ways, you don't have design decisions to make. You do it all. So I enjoy going back to making decisions about what's important as I'm working on a game.

John Carmack

#65. Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

Chip Kidd

#66. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

Jonathan Ive

#67. User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Evan Williams

#68. The Way of Tao is this: It strives not, but conquers; It speaks not, but all is made clear; It summons not, but its house is crowded; It contrives not, but the design is perfect.

Laozi

#69. When the image is new, the world is new.

Gaston Bachelard

#70. My team can't agree on our first design. So, your team is made up of dynamic, creative minds that think differently. Congratulations!

Greg Nudelman

#71. It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Groucho Marx

#72. I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion displayed by its adherents precisely to the fact that it is thought to liberate us from religion. That world view is ripe for displacement ...

Thomas Nagel

#73. How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?

Jonathan Crary

#74. The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes.

Dennis Prager

#75. Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

Mike Krieger

#76. For rather particular reasons, the interior-design industry moved more quickly than fashion to cope with AIDS. One reason is that it is made up of generally smaller businesses than fashion. The human losses were more quickly noticed.

Michael Shnayerson

#77. So much of design is context.

Steve Madden

#78. Evolution is a design process; it's just not an intelligent design process.

Jonathan Haidt

#79. News is almost more interesting to me than other people's fiction, if that makes sense. But other people's fiction in terms of design is still incredibly interesting to me.

Neill Blomkamp

#80. Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

Sailor Jerry

#81. If we are fortunate, we one day find that person who impacts our world in such a way that our life is never the same again. By chance, or by design, we met that someone who offers the support, encouragement, and inspiration to become more than we ever thought possible.

Jim Rohn

#82. Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.

Janine Benyus

#83. If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Brian Foote

#84. A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.

Christopher Plummer

#85. It seems an insult to the night to speak of purpose and intent, when this common moment is so brimming full of blessed design tranquility. All things follow their course.

Anne Rice

#86. While fashion is exciting because it changes all the time, it is also fleeting. Film, though, is forever. In a way therefore, film is the ultimate design project.

Tom Ford

#87. Any tendency to design for design's sake, to create a pattern within which the owner must live according to rules set by the designer, is headed for frustration, if not disaster.

Thomas Haden Church

#88. That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living.

Margaret Millar

#89. Design is the best way to get from A to B when you don't yet know what B is.

Cheryl Heller

#90. I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

Philip Treacy

#91. Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

Van Day Truex

#92. Green Gables has been translated into Swedish and Dutch. My copy of the Swedish edition always gives me the inestimable boon of a laugh. The cover design is a full length figure of Anne, wearing a sunbonnet, carrying the famous carpet-bag, and with hair that is literally of an intense scarlet!

L.M. Montgomery

#93. There is a saying in entrepreneurship that your early employees are all commandos. Commandos are people who can do almost everything well: emails, strategy, code, design.

Adeo Ressi

#94. When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.

Frederic Goudy

#95. What I've learned from different designers is that it's key to be true to who you are and your vision. That's always been my line of thinking. Working through the whole design process, I don't want to create something I wouldn't be proud to wear.

Kellan Lutz

#96. I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

Kanye West

#97. People who design machines and airplanes {or buildings}, no matter how much they believe that what they do is good, the winds of time eventually turn them into tools of industrial civilization. They're cursed dreams. Animation, too. Beautiful yet cursed dreams.

Hayao Miyazaki

#98. Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.

Ellen DeGeneres

#99. The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

Thom Mayne

#100. Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point.
The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.

Aleister Crowley