Design Quotes

To a database person, every nail looks like a thumb. Or something like that.

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

I am always driven by the terror of humiliation.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

The first thing one learns about typography & type design is that these rules are made to be broken.

I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

Computers are stupid.

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.

Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

The designs are more about the whole thing rather than the details, and if I were to do the big shapes I do, color would maybe be too much. Pink or red would push it all over the edge.

Art lies in conceiving and designing, not in the actual execution' - this was left for lesser minds.

Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.

Why is composing symphonies tough? I don't know. It's just very few people in the world can do it well. And I think that's the case with upfront design. It is very hard to do well.

The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value

Typography at its best is a visual form of language linking timelessness and time.

We can't manipulate some stars while maintaining other stars as controls; we can't start and stop ice ages, and we can't experiment with designing and evolving dinosaurs.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

My mom modeled and made clothes, so I always had such an appreciation for design. And then Gossip Girl completely blew open the door to fashion for me.

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Set the troops to their tasks without imparting your designs.

The conclusion of design flows naturally from the data; we should not shrink from it; we should embrace it and build on it.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

I can see hope inside it." Rachel ran her fingers over the ceramic designs. "So fragile.

Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

Justice is following the divine design in all that one does, and bringing back into the divine design things that have fallen away from that design. Justice is the divine design itself.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.

I'm interested in designing for posterity.

Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.

The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

Typography needs to be audible. Typography needs to be felt. Typography needs to be experienced.

I actually don't think that brand new logos are worth that much or mean that much in and of themselves. So why not have a class of third graders compete to design your logo?