Design Quote by John M. Carroll

The design is done when the problem goes away.

— Jason Fried

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to…

— Anonymous

“There is no design so good that it can't be messed up by bad implementation.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

— Ellet J. Waggoner

There is no way to find the best design except to try out as many designs as possible and discard the failures.

— Freeman Dyson

Some problems are better evaded than solved.

— Tony Hoare

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

— Seth Godin

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

— Jakob Nielsen

We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project…

— Glenford Myers

“In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from…

— Sherry Turkle

You can almost say that a design error is a human error because, after all, it's we humans who do the designing.

— Henry Petroski

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

— H. L. Mencken