Design Quotes · Page 52

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

— Roger Wolcott Sperry

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

“Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.”

— Yvon Chouinard

I am inspired to design experiences that people actually need and love to use.

— Tom Gruber

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

— Caterina Fake

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

— Clement Mok

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

— Edward Tufte

Good Web design is about the character of the content, not the character of the designer.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

All great hotels should have stellar personalized service, a unique design that gives guests a sense of place, an excellent on-site restaurant,…

— Ivanka Trump

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play…

— Brad Pitt

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and…

— Ryan North

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

— Stephen Sondheim

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

— Manolo Blahnik

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does…

— Louis Silverstein

Design [is] the emerging ethos formulating and then answering a very new question: What shall we do now, in the face of…

— John Hockenberry

While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had…

— John Dyer

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the…

— Olivier Theyskens

What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,…

— Henry Petroski

Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most…

— Robert Brunner

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the…

— Temple Grandin

Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house…

— Richard Dooling

There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think…

— Joel Spolsky

Throughout this book, we've been evangelizing simplicity, but ironically, the practice of simplicity is not simple. It is easy to build a…

— Jakob Nielsen

There was never a moment where I was intentionally cribbing from another actor. More so, I grew up watching other actors design…

— Cameron Monaghan

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

— Harry Bertoia

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

— Cynthia Rowley

With imagination and personal creativity, people who sew can design the way they look to suit themselves.

— Issey Miyake

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

— Henry Spencer

Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes - not yet, anyhow.

— Nevil Shute

My own style is pretty classic; I much prefer to design for others.

— Colleen Atwood

My actual first summer internship was in the design department of Clinique.

— Aerin Lauder

“he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase”

— Milan Kundera

We were designed to know, serve, and love God supremely - and when we are faithful to that design, we flourish.

— Timothy Keller

You can go from creating the design on your iPad to making the object on your MakerBot.

— Bre Pettis

They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

— Christian Lacroix

A design remedy that prevents bugs is always preferable to a test method that discovers them.

— Boris Beizer

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

— Marc Newson

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

— Jef Raskin

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

— Mark Parker

When I'm designing I try to think about what I like to see on other people.

— Dwyane Wade