What Is Design Quotes

#1. What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Mitchell Kapor

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

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

Paula Rego

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

James Wan

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

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

Cheryl Heller

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Michael Graves

#25. I have solved what color is, however ; I still have no idea about what line is.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#26. The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

Oscar Wilde

#27. Good luck is what is left over after intelligence and effort have combined at their best. Luck is the residue of design.

Branch Rickey

#28. Software design as taught today is terribly incomplete. It talks only about what systems should do. It doesn't address the converse - things systems should not do. They should not crash, hang, lose data, violate privacy, lose money, destroy your company, or kill your customers.

Michael T. Nygard

#29. So the audience, at times, lets us know actually what is so special about the show that we can't even necessarily design or predict. Which is great. That's what you want art to be. You want it to be alive and to actually have a life in the way it's viewed.

Steve Zissis

#30. I'm constantly thinking about design, shapes, patterns and colors, so I just want to be more of a blank canvas. But there is a comfort in knowing what you're going to wear, and that probably comes from Catholic school, where I wore a uniform for 10 years.

Prabal Gurung

#31. Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Dave Morin

#32. The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.

Karl Lagerfeld

#33. US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.

Mary Roach

#34. I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

Ralph Lauren

#35. I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism .

William E. Gladstone

#36. What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#37. 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

#38. If you love what you do and are willing to do what it takes, it's within your reach. And it'll be worth every minute you spend alone at night, thinking and thinking about what it is you want to design or build. It'll be worth it, I promise.

Steve Wozniak

#39. It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.

Susannah Constantine

#40. Not only is writing more important than ever, but visual literacy is vital. We don't teach enough design, art, visual things. We have to recognize what we're seeing. It matters if you send someone a cluttered design. It matters more than ever.

Marissa Moss

#41. A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

Jonathan Ive

#42. At Stanford, we teach 'design thinking' - that is, we put together small, interdisciplinary groups to figure out what the true needs are and then to apply the art of engineering to serve them.

Hasso Plattner

#43. What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful ...

Michelle Obama

#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. 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

#46. What I love most about Her Majesty is that she has kept hats alive in people's minds for more than 60 years. You can't think of her without imagining her with a hat or a crown. I would, of course, love to design one for her.

Philip Treacy

#47. It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished.

William H. Whyte

#48. 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

#49. What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Douglas Wilson

#50. Even when I was a little girl, I remember going to the Museum of Modern Art. I think my parents took me there once or twice. And what I really remember is the design collection.

Barbara Kruger

#51. An interactive debugger is an outstanding example of what is not needed - it encourages trial-and-error hacking rather than systematic design, and also hides marginal people barely qualified for precision programming.

Harlan Mills

#52. Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make.

James Wan

#53. I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

B.F. Skinner

#54. For me, faith means that what is right will win out one day. It means that the universe is not aimless but moves by some positive design.

Sarah Ferguson

#55. YAGNI forces you to wait until you know what the problem really is and how it should be accommodated by the design. It eliminates guesswork, and ensures that the design will be correct.

Anonymous

#56. A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively.

Mario Bellini

#57. Practise in everything a certain nonchalance that shall conceal design and show that what is done and said is done without effort and almost without thought.

Baldassare Castiglione

#58. Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical, straight, unbending, only at right angles - and functional?

Prince Charles

#59. What users want is convenience and results.

Jef Raskin

#60. A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

Matthew Henry

#61. That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

Edward Gordon Craig

#62. In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,
a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought.

Anna Brownell Jameson

#63. What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Andy Stanley

#64. I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

Liam Gillick

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

Ed Benguiat

#66. When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

Candice Olson

#67. There is no other art medium like tattooing in the world. When the customer comes in with a basic idea, it is up to me to design and translate that idea onto skin. I really appreciate when customers have enough trust in what I can do.

William Webb

#68. The last 10% of game design is really what separates the good games from the great games. It's what I call the clean-up phase of game design. Here's where you make sure all the elements look great. The game should look good, feel good, sound good, play good.

Garry Kitchen

#69. My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes ... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.

Frei Otto

#70. The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.

Neil Gaiman

#71. Power is what they want, not candy-power to execute their design, power to give legs and feet, form and actuality to their thought; which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well applied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#72. 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

#73. When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Joseph Priestley

#74. Fashion is everything. Art, music, furniture design, graphic design, hair, makeup, architecture, the way cars look - all those things go together to make a moment in time, and that's what excites me.

Tom Ford

#75. I never was interested in being part of the fashion world - I just wanted to design shoes. I didn't even know 'Vogue' existed when I was growing up. 'Vogue,' what is that?'

Christian Louboutin

#76. But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?

Mary Astell

#77. Nissan is designing a car that will read the driver's mind. I already know what I'm going to do. I want a car that will read the other guy's mind.

Jay Leno

#78. I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

Jeffrey Veen

#79. What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Rian Hughes

#80. 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

#81. I could make Halo. It's not that I couldn't design that game. It's just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#82. I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

Donna Karan

#83. Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Jonathan Ive

#84. I want to know: How does a space suit on Mars work? Show me how it is pressurized, and how it is cooled. What's the glove design? None of that stuff can be bought off the rack. It does not exist. You can't just go to SpaceMart and buy those things.

Chris Hadfield

#85. The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

L. Bruce Archer

#86. An entrepreneurial economy is what made America great. People didn't come to settle the country several hundred years ago for all the good paying jobs. There weren't any. There was nothing but natural resources and opportunities. - Chris Lutz, Modular Career Design

Chris Lutz

#87. Most business processes are about making choices from a set of existing alternatives. Clearly, if all your competition is doing the same, then differentiation is tough. In order to innovate, we have to have new alternatives and new solutions to problems, and that is what design can do.

Tim Brown

#88. What people most need now is to apply their conversion skills to those things that are essential for their survival. They need to convert facts into logic, free will into purpose, conscience into decision. They need to convert historical experience into a design for a sane world.

Norman Cousins

#89. It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

Louis Silverstein

#90. I don't design cars. I'm not a designer. I know what I desire to be built, I know what the end result is, the horsepower, the competition we'll be working against - but I leave it to the people who work with me to put it all together. I don't do anything.

Carroll Shelby

#91. Food is one part of the experience. And it has to be somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the dining experience. But the rest counts as well: The mood, the atmosphere, the music, the feeling, the design, the harmony between what you have on the plate and what surrounds the plate.

Alain Ducasse

#92. Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.

Kenji Ekuan

#93. My whole success is I've always been designing for people, first because I wanted to sell them merchandise. Then when I got into hotels, I had to rethink, what am I selling now? You're selling a good time.

Morris Lapidus

#94. Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

Tom Ford

#95. Dealing with these sexual disorders, you ask 'what is it supposed to look like?' 'what's the norm?' The norm is the heterosexual design of the body

Scott Lively

#96. We look at life from the back side of the tapestry. And most of the time, what we see is loose threads, tangled knots and the like. But occasionally, God's light shines through the tapestry, and we get a glimpse of the larger design with God weaving together the darks and lights of existence.

John Piper

#97. A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don't have to go through any training to get there When a design is not intuitive, our attention moves away from what we're trying to accomplish to how we can get the interface to accomplish what we want.

Jared Spool

#98. 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

#99. Content is what powers your website, not the design or color of your fonts.

Matthew Capala

#100. I've always been intrigued by things that insinuate femininity, so in my designs, something like a flower is never about the fact that it's a flower. It's more about what that repetitive motif implies.

Erdem Moralioglu