Design Quote by Donald A. Norman Download Open image “The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.” — Donald A. Norman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Design Engineering Features Hardest Software Software design
The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design. — John McAslan Copy Share Image
The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want. — Syd Mead Copy Share Image
I think there's always something about design that is going to be very difficult for more than a small fraction of people to really… — Khoi Vinh Copy Share Image
I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers. — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
When I was a student and rushing to finish a project, my gut instinct was usually to keep adding all kinds of features. It's… — Mike Krieger Copy Share Image
... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed. — Dennis Ritchie Copy Share Image
Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier. — Jared Spool Copy Share Image
You can say that designing is quite easy; the difficulty lies in finding a new way to explore beauty — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
The thing is, 75 percent of design today is absolutely outdated. It all has to be redesigned with the materials and knowledge that we… — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost. — Bjarne Stroustrup Copy Share Image
“key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit… — Giambattista Bodoni Copy Share Image
Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them. — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Like many other scientists who hold the Catholic faith, I see the Creator's plan and purpose fulfilled in our universe. I see a planet… — Kenneth R. Miller Copy Share Image
Programmers are always surrounded by complexity; we cannot avoid it.... If our basic tool, the language in which we design and code our programs,… — Tony Hoare Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
