Engineering Quote by Geoffrey West

“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details”

— Soumeet Lanka

“Devising strategies to solve anticipated complexity of problems via strategic management and systemic approach is the heart of a good project design.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin - - Project Monitoring & Evaluation - A Primer

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

— Kenya Hara

I'm not being analytical. I just create everything intuitively. If you're too analytical, what you're doing probably ends up being too specific.

— Gus Van Sant

“1. Have clear goals. 2. Identify and don’t tolerate the problems that stand in the way of your achieving those goals. 3. Accurately diagnose the problems…

— Ray Dalio

“Principles of design: 1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head. 2. Simplify the structure of tasks. 3. Make things…

— Donald A. Norman

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

— Hillman Curtis

“Reality consists of sets of interacting problems, systems of problems we call “messes.” As previously noted, problems are abstractions extracted from reality by analysis.…

— Russell L. Ackoff

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

— Edward Tufte

My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context…

— Bill Buxton

“Know what problem you’re solving. Often, people work on the wrong problem entirely by making some implicit assumption about what’s causing it. Great problem-solvers…

— Nat Greene

“Complex work is managed so that problems in design and operations are revealed.”

— Gene Kim