Top 100 Design Is Quotes
#1. I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
Nate Berkus
#2. Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated ...
Dieter Rams
#3. No longer associated simply with objects and appearances, design is increasingly understood in a much wider sense as the human capacity to plan and produce desired outcomes.
Bruce Mau
#4. Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
Edward Tufte
#5. Choice is one level of freedom, but design is a higher
Ron Davison
#6. Design is ... above all an effort to improve reality ... I always try to begin with considerations of its function ... I ask myself, who needs it, which materials best suit its functions and so on ...
Gianfranco Frattini
#7. Accident is nature's way of starting a design; design is a man's way of looking at the accidents.
Thiruman Archunan
#8. Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake
#10. The most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details
Soumeet Lanka
#11. Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.
John Marburger
#13. Intelligent design is just the Logos theology of John's Gospel restated in the idiom of information theory.
William A. Dembski
#14. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan Kay
#16. Design isn't Art. It's not about creating beautiful or thought-provoking things for the sake of it. Design is a discipline creating communication with a purpose.
Ben Hunt
#17. The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
Tibor Kalman
#18. A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy.
Demetri Martin
#19. Verbalizing design is another act of design.
Kenya Hara
#20. Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
Donald A. Norman
#21. The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.
Jonathan Ive
#22. Classical design is a mirror of the human mind. It's how we see the world.
Robert McKee
#23. Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
Geoff Lawton
#24. If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
Alice Waters
#25. Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.
Gregg Harper
#26. For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails
Bruce Mau
#27. Design acknowledges change. Its meaning encompasses change in our times. To design is to 'create order and to function according to a plan.' The notion of change and design move along the same path.
Sara Little Turnbull
#28. Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#30. Design is a series of creative choices - it's a collaborative effort, an evolutionary process. You choose your fabrics depending upon what you want to say, then you work with mills to get those fabrics. Through the process, you realize what you want it to be.
Marc Jacobs
#31. My design is organic, I don't control architecture, I grow it
Marco Casagrande
#32. Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff
#33. It's putting the aesthetic of a design before the function of a design. Those two things need to be in balance. Something can look beautiful and read beautifully but those two things need to be in balance. If a design is in the way of the actual communication, it's ten times worse.
Denise Bosler
#34. Design is so important because chaos is so hard
Jules Feiffer
#36. Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It's really more about logic than imagination.
Massimo Vignelli
#37. Dissimulation, even the most innocent in its nature, is ever productive of embarrassment; whether the design is evil or not artifice is always dangerous and almost inevitably disgraceful.
Jean De La Bruyere
#38. Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
Martin Filler
#39. Everything we design is a response to the specific climate and culture of a particular place.
Norman Foster
#40. God's design is for His anointing to come upon those He finds trustworthy, to empower them to do great things for Him.
Rodney Burton
#41. If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.
Victor Papanek
#42. Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
Katherine Waterston
#44. Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
Tom Peters
#45. I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.
Peter Norvig
#46. For me, meaning of design is to give soul to objects by Art. Art sometimes need to be in every part of daily life, not only in the galleries and museums.
Baris Gencel
#47. Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.
Steve Ballmer
#48. The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.
Walter Isaacson
#49. After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
Albert Hadley
#50. Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel De Cervantes
#51. Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute to the quality of life; design, in many ways, now constitutes the quality of life.
Peter Lawrence
#52. The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#53. Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible,
Donald A. Norman
#54. Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.
Larry Wall
#55. You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.
Mikko Hypponen
#56. The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers.
Alan Cooper
#57. the most important element of delightful design is empathy.
Anonymous
#58. An effective lighting design is like a beautiful painting. Your medium is bringing someone to an emotional state he or she would not achieve at that moment without your art. This does not and can not happen by accident.
Glenn Cunningham
#59. The design's intuitiveness is factorized based on the stored procedures: the more intuitive the design is, the more the users can remember and recall.
Suyog Ketkar
#61. To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder and accident. Therefore it signifies a human need and qualifies man's thinking and doing.
Josef Albers
#62. Genome design is going to be a key part of the future. That's why we need fast, cheap, accurate DNA synthesis, so you can make a lot of iterations of something and test them.
Craig Venter
#63. Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.
Victor Papanek
#68. Fashion design is so diverse. It does not have clear identities as before with Balenciaga, Chanel, Cardin, Courreges. Design is about being recognised without a label. Elegance alone is not sufficient,
Pierre Cardin
#69. System design is not considered in this type of testing. Tests are based on requirements and functionality.
Anonymous
#70. Graphic design is a popular art and a practical art, an applied art and an ancient art. Simply put, it is the art of visualizing ideas.
Jessica Helfand
#71. Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams
#72. Digital design is like painting, except the paint never dries.
Neville Brody
#73. Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.
Jonathan Ive
#74. The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.
Jeffery Keedy
#75. The reason why any one refuses his assent to your opinion, or his aid to your benevolent design, is in you: he refuses to accept you as a bringer of truth, because, though you think you have it, he feels that you have it not. You have not given him the authentic sign.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#76. Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#77. Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.
John Hockenberry
#78. Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.
Lee Strobel
#79. Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.
Karim Rashid
#80. Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand
#81. Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Henry Petroski
#82. Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.
Rob Pike
#83. Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.
Doug Cranmer
#84. We believe that the all-new ES 350 epitomizes Lexus' new design direction. Every element of this vehicle invites participation
both visual and tactile. Its design is something drivers will need to experience and not just observe.
Robert M. Carter
#85. To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.
Emil Ruder
#86. Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.
Jay Samit
#87. Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.
Ralph Caplan
#88. Here's Ohga: At Sony, we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same technology, price, performance, and features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.
Daniel H. Pink
#89. Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.
Biz Stone
#90. Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
#91. Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.
Nicola Formichetti
#92. As we move into the 21st century, it becomes ever clearer that the ultimate, most intimate territory for design is not electronics, or interiors, or furniture, or the Web. It's us-our own living, breathing, biological selves ... the personal makeover has become our most fundamental design task.
Rick Poynor
#93. Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design ... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance.
William A. Dembski
#94. Golf course design is exciting.
Tom Kite
#95. Everything in the world is part of a design. Everything has meaning and purpose and a place in the pattern of existence, only it's not always possible to understand what that design is. Only God can understand the design, because he invented it.
Susan Howatch
#96. I assert that the art of sculpture, among all the arts connected with design, is at least seven times greater than any other, for the following reason: why, sir, a statue of true sculpture ought to have seven points of view, which ought all to boast equal excellence.
Benvenuto Cellini
#97. The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia
#98. Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.
Donald Knuth
#99. Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
Chuck Green
#100. The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated by economic considerations - the way in which skyscrapers are real estate before they are architecture.
Paul Goldberger
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