Design Quotes - Page 24

• I don't want to end my career and then start something. I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing.

  Serena Williams

  Fashion, Fun, Careers

  "Dixie Chick pregnant with twins; Love: 'I don't take drugs'; Diaz photog fights back". www.sfgate.com. November 5, 2003.

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• Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Taken, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.141, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

  Vern Yip

  Creating, People, Family And Friends

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Discovery

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• Kanye is always here in my factory. In the last three years, he has come here maybe every month and worked with the employees 10 to 12 hours a day. [Kanye] loves learning about shoes, both the design and construction, and we’ve tried to design something together. In a couple of months, he could have his own special collection out.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Couple, Years, Shoes

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• Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

  Peter Shumlin

  Cost, Care, Containment

  "Gov. Peter Shumlin: The man who'd bring single-payer health care to Vermont". Interview with Ezra Klein, voices.washingtonpost.com. February 10, 2011.

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• I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the chance to design a special The UPS Store/Toys for Tots car, this contest is a great way for children to learn about the importance of charitable giving.

  Dale Jarrett

  Children, Kids, Years

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• It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
  That's good design.

  Sepp Holzer

  Looks, Way, Made

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• Not everything is design. But design is about everything. So do yourself a favor: be ready for anything.

  Michael Bierut

  Favors, Ready

  Michael Bierut (2012). “Seventy-nine Short Essays on Design”, p.13, Chronicle Books

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• Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It’s really more about logic than imagination.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Discipline, Imagination, Information

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

  Hillman Curtis

  Believe, Elements, May

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• Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

  Karim Rashid

  Life, Emotion, Improvement

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• We should tell more young designers not to worry about what they're going to do with their design careers. They should start their own brands. Designers should create their own beautiful brands that can change the world.

  Karim Rashid

  Beautiful, Careers, Worry

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• When I design a collection I strive to make a woman feel as special as the delicate creation she is wearing; take her to an enchanted time and place where women are princesses and magnificent goddesses. In today's modern world we need to pause and indulge in beauty.

  Claire Pettibone

  Princess, Indulge In, Special

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• Listen, my father had written. Listen to hear if they are telling the truth or only part of the truth, for that is the lesson of history: that the victors tell the tale of their triumph in a manner to grant accolades to themselves and heap blame upon their rivals. Ask yourself if part of the story is being withheld by design or ignorance.

  Kate Elliott

  Father, Ignorance, Triumph

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• The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it.

  Mark Weiser

  Life, Creativity, Technology

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• As a gender variant visual artist I access 'technologies of gender' in order to amplify rather than erase the hermaphroditic traces of my body. I name myself. A gender abolitionist. A part time gender terrorist. An intentional mutation and intersex by design, (as opposed to diagnosis), in order to distinguish my journey from the thousands of intersex individuals who have had their 'ambiguous' bodies mutilated and disfigured in a misguided attempt at 'normalization'. I believe in crossing the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

  Del LaGrace Volcano

  Believe, Technology, Journey

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• My thesis [is] that in order to design a tool, we must make our best efforts to understand the larger social and physical context within which it is intended to function

  Bill Buxton

  Order, Best Effort, Tools

  Bill Buxton (2010). “Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design”, p.37, Morgan Kaufmann

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• Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

  Bill Buxton

  Thinking, Impact, Names

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• Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

  Jared Spool

  Target, Currents, Happens

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• Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

  Jared Spool

  Technology, Giving, Superpower

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• The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.

  Jared Spool

  Moving, Enough Time, Exploration

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• A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don’t have to go through any training to get there When a design is not intuitive, our attention moves away from what we’re trying to accomplish to how we can get the interface to accomplish what we want.

  Jared Spool

  Moving, People, Training

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• When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

  Jared Spool

  Creating, Needs, Great Experiences

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• Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

  Jared Spool

  Thinking, Air, Hands

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