Design Quotes · Page 44

“As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work.”

— Steve Krug

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

— Dieter Rams

The beauty is in finding, not in what you find ; that is just an excuse.

— Rajneesh

“aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.”

— Noah Kerner

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

— John Dryden

We never could design a building as beautiful as the trees.

— Pietro Belluschi

I am extremely involved in the design process of both my brands, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

— Nicole Richie

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

— Donald A. Norman

Les femmes et les hommes ne vivent pas sur le me" me plan. Women and men do not live according to the…

— Boris Vian

“God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right…

— Israelmore Ayivor

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a…

— Jonathan Ive

Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the…

— Stephen Hawking

Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place."

— Peter Block

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body.…

— Alber Elbaz

We are individual designs in the fabric of life. We have our own integrity, but simultaneously we are part of the fabric,…

— Tom Atlee

It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how…

— Zach Braff

“Our Master puts the desire to procreate in us to be sure that we are fruitful and multiply. He knows how important…

— Kate McGahan

When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things…

— Tucker Viemeister

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces…

— Antony Gormley

I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so…

— Amy Lee

Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I…

— Christian Louboutin

I don't like the collusion between high fashion design and high street. You have to know where you stand. I belong to…

— Hedi Slimane

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

Is there a way to design a room in my house where I float around? I would quite enjoy that. It's nuts.

— Karl Lagerfeld

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

— Raymond Loewy

Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.

— Ellen Lupton

Decorators should always remember that letting a client see too many beautiful things is a pitfall.

— Albert Hadley

The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole.

— Erich Gamma

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

— Nate Berkus

Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die.

— Isaac Mizrahi

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the…

— David Hockney

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

— James Wan

I want to be a woman of focus. I don't want to live by default, but by design.

— Linda Dillow

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

— Saul Bass

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

— Mario Bellini

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

— Douglas Wilson

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

— Thomas A. Edison

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

— Jonathan Ive