Design Quotes - Page 40

• I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.

  Genevieve Gorder

  Powerful, Artist, Thinking

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• Since an early age, I've been intrigued by the idea of design evolution.

  Phillip Lim

  Ideas, Age, Evolution

  "Phillip Lim Signed On as Target's Next Designer Collaboration" by Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. May 9, 2013.

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• If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings.

  Lance Loud

  Cutting, Gay, Men

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• Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new book in my hand, a sensual delight from the smell and crispness of the pages. I loved the smoothness and bright colors of their jackets. For me, a stacked, unread pyramid of books was one of the sexiest architectural designs there was, because what I loved most about books was their promise, the anticipation of what lay between the covers, waiting to be found.

  Debra Ginsberg

  Book, Reading, Hands

  Debra Ginsberg (2006). “Blind Submission: A Novel”, p.4, Crown

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• The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.

  Sharon Lee

  Encouragement, Simplicity, Support

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• Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.

  Valentino Garavani

  Passion, Boys, Lucky

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• I am still ready to shake hands with anyone who designs a better assault rifle than mine.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Hands, Rifles, Assault

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• I was probably born with some designing abilities.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Born, Ability

  "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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• You see, with [designing]weapons, it is like a woman who bears children. For months she carries her baby and thinks about it. A designer does much the same thing with a prototype. I felt like a mother - always proud. It is a special feeling, as if you were awarded with a special award. I shot with it a lot. I still do now. That is why I am hard of hearing.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

  Donald A. Norman

  Simple, Locks, Labels

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.64, MIT Press

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• The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

  Donald A. Norman

  Everyday Things, Unnecessary Things, Becoming

  Donald A. Norman (2013). “The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.183, Basic Books

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• A collection of plants is not a landscape, any more than a list of choice words is a poem. The merit is in the design, not the material it is expressed in, and the best designs, like the best poems, make ordinary material significant by its arrangement.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Choices, Landscape, Lists

  Nan Fairbrother (1974). “The nature of landscape design: as an art form, a craft, a social necessity”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• When I die and go to hell, the devil is going to make me the marketing director for a cola company. I’ll be in charge of trying to sell a product that no one needs, is identical to its competition, and can’t be sold on its merits. I’d be competing head-on in the cola wars, on price, distribution, advertising, and promotion, which would indeed be hell for me. Remember, I’m the kid who couldn’t play competitive games. I’d much rather design and sell products so good and unique that they have no competition.

  Yvon Chouinard

  War, Kids, Unique

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.119, Penguin

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• Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars, pills and drugs, designing chips that go into 94 percent of the world's mobile phones.

  Evan Davis

  Aerospace, Phones, Car

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• The designs and my credit have been stolen from me, since I alone have designed the Alien. So why does Fox not give me the credit I rightfully earned? As for those responsible for this conspiracy: all I can wish them is an Alien breeding inside their chests, which might just remind them that the Alien father is HR Giger.

  H. R. Giger

  Father, Giving, Wish

  Letter to 20th Century Fox, theoldreader.com. November 13, 1997.

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• Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

  Ben Horowitz

  Mistake, Communication, Ambition

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• The divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation; as there was no other beings existing antecedent thereto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursuing the same thing still, and always will.

  Lemuel Haynes

  Character, Mind, Attention

  "Black Preacher to White America: The Collected Writings of Lemuel Haynes, 1774-1833".

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• Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.

  Norm Dicks

  Years, Aggravation, Defense

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• You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

  John Doerr

  Today, Great Design

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• I wouldn't exactly call it 'Intelligent', but somebody has to be behind designing the human form other than just biological necessity. Why else would women have arms? Or feet? Or mouths?

  Zach Braff

  Intelligent, Feet, Mouths

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• It's kind of ironic that my character is a doctor who acts very gay with his best friend. I don't see how gays could ever be doctors, they spend too much time whining about everything. Just get off your soapbox and go back to designing floral arrangements.

  Zach Braff

  Character, Gay, Doctors

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• Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

  Jef Raskin

  Tasks, Firsts, Interfaces

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• All my days are themed.  Monday is managementTuesday is product, engineering, and design.  Wednesday is marketing, growth, and communications.  Thursday is partnership and developers.  Friday is company and cultureOn the days beginning with T, I start at Twitter in the morning, then go to Square in the afternoon.  Sundays are for strategySaturday is a day off.

  Jack Dorsey

  Friday, Monday, Morning

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• Sundance Supply has a neat material calculator and free greenhouse designs-Great Prices!

  Shane Smith

  Calculators, Neat, Greenhouses

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• With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch

  Marc Newson

  Simple, Dresses, Watches

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