Top 48 Quotes About Simple Design
#1. I love it when you can bring really great design and simple capability to something that doesn't cost much," he said as he pointed out the clean elegance of the houses. "It was the original vision for Apple. That's what we tried to do with the first Mac. That's what we did with the iPod.
Walter Isaacson
#2. Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.
Dave Morin
#3. Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
Kent Beck
#4. Now he had learned that a machine, simple in its design, could produce results of infinite complexity.
Neal Stephenson
#5. There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.
Ivan Chermayeff
#6. Toshiaki learned that all living organisms were governed by their DNA. He was impressed by perfection of this system.Why did existence have the ability to design such a beautiful code? And how could such a simple structure account for endless diversity of life forms?
Hideaki Sena
#7. There are two methods in software design. One is to make the program so simple, there are obviously no errors. The other is to make it so complicated, there are no obvious errors.
Tony Hoare
#8. ...I'm not saying simple code takes less time to write. You'd think it would since you end up with less total code, but a good solution isn't an accretion of code, it's a distillation of it.
Robert Nystrom
#9. Despite its simple and humble design, Zik is certainly today one of our most successful products in terms of intuitive ergonomics.
Philippe Starck
#10. With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch
Marc Newson
#11. I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.
Jamie Bamber
#12. I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.
Tomm Moore
#13. If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.
Bill Moggridge
#14. If your product solves real problems, has a simple, intuitive interaction and an appealing, easy-to-read visual design, yet people aren't using it, chances are your product is failing to communicate at a human level.
Everett N. McKay
#15. Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level.
Robert Moog
#16. No one disputes that seeming order can come out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules?
Robert J. Sawyer
#17. The problem is there are no simple "right" answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need - carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.
Steve Krug
#18. A distinctive appearance and a simple set of characteristics lead to an extremely flexible brand. (pg. 38)
Woodrow Phoenix
#19. Human happiness does not seem to have been included in the design of creation. It is only we with our capacity to love that fives meaning to the indifferent universe, and yet most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even to find joy from simple things.
Woody Allen
#20. I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn something. I like games that you can just pick up, sit down in front of, and get going.
Sid Meier
#21. The best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.
John Gribbin
#22. There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
Frank Gehry
#23. The reason for designing new media is simple - to subtly and quietly change the world.
Hillman Curtis
#24. Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it's easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.
Erika Hall
#25. [Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.
Jacques Bertin
#26. What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather the task of the designer is to give visual access to the subtle and the difficult - that is, revelation of the complex.
Edward Tufte
#27. When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.
Nate Berkus
#28. The strongest logos tell simple stories.
Sol Sender
#29. Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
Jack Welch
#30. C is not clean - the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.
Erik Naggum
#31. Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.
Richard Diaz
#32. The sudden hunch, the creative leap of mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence.
Martin Gardner
#33. The chair was a simple Scandinavian design of chrome and white leather. Beautiful, clean, and silent, with not an ounce of warmth, like a fine rain falling under the midnight sun.
Haruki Murakami
#34. 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
#35. Good designers can take the complex and make it profoundly simple. Great designers will also stir your soul and bewitch you with the beauty of their design - Quote by Aziz Musa (Quote found in book by Jock Busuttil)
Jock Busuttil
#36. 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
#37. She was the sort of person who needed to be kept happy, he realized. Not as a matter of selfish expectation, but as a simple fact of design; like a piano or a harp, she'd been made to function best at a certain tuning.
Kate Morton
#38. Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Robert Collier
#39. The really blisteringly original games are incredibly simple.
Paul Reiche III
#40. God's design for taking the gospel to the world is a slow, intentional, simple process that involves every one of his people sacrificing every facet of their lives to multiply the life of Christ in others.
David Platt
#41. Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.
Jordan Mechner
#42. Look. Folks. It's simple. If you have poor taste in decorating, don't go nuts in the entryway. Wait until your guests are inside before you spring something unusual on them.
James Lileks
#43. Simple code takes effort to design. It is not the same thing as overly simplistic code.
Anonymous
#44. Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates
#45. Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.
Rob Manuel
#46. 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
#47. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
Paul Rand
#48. If a product feature or user design experience isn't achieving virility, it's wrong, plain and simple. In the old days, the product team would come up with something, and the marketing team had to figure out how to sell it to the public, either by educating them or using old-fashioned
Jose Casanova
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