Quotes About Design Simplicity

#1. Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

Elsie De Wolfe

#2. It's easy to make something with a million style-lines. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve, and that's how I approach design - very minimal, pare it down, perfect.

Keith Michael

#3. How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

Kent Beck

#4. I see no difference between a genius and a loony, they both speak a language that I find strange.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#5. 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

#6. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

Donald A. Norman

#7. Simplicity, wit, and good typography.

Michael Bierut

#8. The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

#9. If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.

Robert Cecil Martin

#10. 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

#11. It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

Bruce Tognazzini

#12. Well, hello, Charlotte... Today I play the part of your dearest friend, a kindred spirit and sole confidante. Feel free to whisper your darkest secrets to me - it's all part of the guise, of course. You can trust me not to share. - Linnet

Andrea Cremer

#13. Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

John Wesley

#14. Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

Oliver North

#15. Good," Asterin said. "We're immortals. Things should change, and often, or they'll get boring.

Sarah J. Maas

#16. Only powerful people have liberty.

Sun Yat-sen

#17. The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

Donald A. Norman

#18. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Bruce Lee

#19. The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [ ... ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

Fernando J. Corbato

#20. When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.

Robin Quivers

#21. The troops are therefore empowered and are in duty bound in this war to use without mitigation even against women and children any means that will lead to success.

Wilhelm Keitel

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

Jonathan Ive

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

Sailor Jerry

#24. Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence.

Christoph Niemann

#25. There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

Sohrab Vossoughi

#26. When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.

Genevieve Gorder

#27. If you wish to draw profit, read with humility, simplicity, and faith, and never with the design of gaining a reputation for learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#28. Literature may increase one's depth of knowledge, but not all knowledge be found in literature. Only with practical experience can one truly learn and thus be considered knowledgeable.

Lynette Noni

#29. Here's Henry, trying to burst the bubble still further, if indeed it needs more bursting

George Hamilton

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

Nancy Lancaster

#31. Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Alan Cooper

#32. Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.

Shawn Lukas

#33. From the way of Go the beauty of Japan and the Orient had fled. Everything had become science and regulation.

Yasunari Kawabata

#34. The first thing I did when I made the decision to kill myself was to stop dieting. Let them dig a wider hole.

Gail Parent

#35. Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Jon Franklin

#36. Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

John Maeda

#37. A guest is a jewel on the cushion of hospitality

Rex Stout

#38. Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy ... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Nas