Quotes About Bad Design

#1. The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny.

Karl Pilkington

#2. Find a bigger enemy than just a rival brand. It can be bad design. It can be time. It can be pollution. It can be ugliness. It can be bad service. It can be landfill. It can be complexity. But pick your enemy well. It will drive you forward.

David Hieatt

#3. It is sad that so many designers don't know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

Jonathan Ive

#4. If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

Ralf Speth

#5. I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

Carrie Fulton Phillips

#6. One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase.

Martin Fowler

#7. In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision.

Jared Spool

#8. Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

Donald A. Norman

#9. Bad design cannot be patched up with labels, instruction manuals or traingin courses.

Donald Norman

#10. There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

Edward Tufte

#11. Bad design is the default mode, since it takes the least effort to create.

David Butler

#12. The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

Paul Rand

#13. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.

Douglas Martin

#14. Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Edward Tufte

#15. Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Paul Rand

#16. A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

Juhani Pallasmaa

#17. Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average.

Fred Brooks

#18. It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good.

Paula Scher

#19. If there's one thing you learn by working on a lot of different Web sites, it's that almost any design idea
no matter how appallingly bad
can be made usable in the right circumstances, with enough effort.

Steve Krug

#20. Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That's the beautiful simplicity of evolution. It matches design to environment.

Blake Crouch

#21. If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for bad clients, it will lead to other bad work for other bad clients.

Michael Bierut

#22. Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors.

Jaron Lanier

#23. The first rule of organizational design is that all organizational designs are bad.

Ben Horowitz

#24. I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad.

Susan Orlean

#25. A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

Brenda Laurel

#26. Bad economics teaches that computers can design markets. Good economics teaches that markets can design computers.

Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

#27. I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

Tadao Ando

#28. I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

Heidi Julavits

#29. I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do good work and get the client to accept it.

Bob Gill

#30. He made his colours, built his stretchers, plastered his canvas, painted his pictures, carpentered his frames, and painted them. 'Too bad I can't buy my own pictures,' he murmured aloud. 'Then I'd be completely self-sufficient.'

Irving Stone

#31. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Richard Saul Wurman

#32. Countless women are alive today because of ideas stimulated by a design flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#33. While non of us understands the Grand Design, we can commit to using all our experiences, good or bad, as the building blocks of a powerful and loving life. Then it is, indeed, all happening perfectly.

Susan Jeffers

#34. He who designs an unsafe structure or an inoperative machine is a bad Engineer; he who designs them so that they are safe and operative, but needlessly expensive, is a poor Engineer, and ... he who does the best work at lowest cost sooner or later stands at the top of his profession.

Henry R. Towne

#35. Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

Alexander McQueen

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

Brian Foote

#37. Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

William McDonough

#38. I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.

Douglas Wilson

#39. 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

#40. I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.

Joe Jonas

#41. Good designs are in special places for those who has appreciation; bad designs are everywhere.

Baris Gencel

#42. Clothes can be important. I am learning this. For instance, often when I design and I wonder what is the point, I think of someone having a bad time in their life.

Miuccia Prada

#43. Intelligent Design has been hijacked by a narrow group of creationist fundamentalists in America to mean something it didn't originally mean at all. It's another form of the God of the gaps. It's bad theology in that it turns God once again into the pagan god of thunder and lightning.

Guy Consolmagno

#44. The best way to learn the value of good interface design is to use lots of interfaces - some good, some bad. Experience will teach you what works and what doesn't. Never assume that a painful interface is "just the way it is." Fix it, or wrap it in

Marijn Haverbeke

#45. There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is.

Andy Garcia

#46. Affectation of candour is common enough - one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design - to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad - belongs to you alone.

Jane Austen

#47. A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.

Jakob Nielsen

#48. I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

Ed Benguiat

#49. Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in the past were so bad as to make it amazing that people were able to fish at all.

Thomas McGuane

#50. I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

Fumihiko Maki

#51. When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

Miuccia Prada

#52. Good people sometimes do bad things. Sometimes they're by accident, sometimes by design. It doesn't make you any less good. It just makes you human.

S.A. Ferkey

#53. If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

John Ruskin

#54. Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

Isaac Barrow