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• I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.

  John Maeda

  Growing Up, People, Design

  "John Maeda Goes Meta On Design". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. March 8, 2007.

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• Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider.

  Tibor Kalman

  Nice, Moving, Looks

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• A good designer will actually design the company.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Designer, Company

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• Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Design, Risk, Change Is Good

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• Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Book, Design, Example

  "The Panda's Thumb". Book by Stephen Jay Gould. "Double Trouble", pp. 38-40, 1980.

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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence.

  Olivier Theyskens

  People, Design, Way

  Interview with Milena Canonero, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 19, 2011.

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• All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.

  Henry Petroski

  Design, Ensemble, Elements

  "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.

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• Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Design, Should, Aspect

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• If I was ever going to become a good designer, I had to leave America. My own culture was inhibiting me. Too much style in America is tacky. It's looked down upon to be too stylish. Europeans, however, appreciate style.

  Tom Ford

  America, Appreciate, Style

  "Next. Next. What's Next?". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. April 7, 1996.

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• Good designers copy; great designers steal.

  Pablo Picasso

  Design, Stealing, Copies

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• No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

  George Nelson

  Attitude, Integrity, Design

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• Good design is innovative
  2. Good design makes a product useful
  3. Good design is aesthetic
  4. Good design makes a product understandable
  5. Good design is unobtrusive
  6. Good design is honest
  7. Good design is long-lasting
  8. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail
  9. Good design is environmentally friendly
  10. Good design is as little design as possible

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Design, Friendly

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• A good design is not a democratic consensus.

  Edward de Bono

  Business, Motivation, Design

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• A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Psychological, Criteria

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• Good art inspires; Good design motivates.

  Otl Aicher

  Art, Design, Inspire

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• Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Creative, Details

  "15 Things You Didn't Know About Dieter Rams" by Jennifer Wood, www.complex.com. May 20, 2014.

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• Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated.

  Dieter Rams

  Long, Design, Lasting

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• Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

  Jared Spool

  Design, Done, Invisible

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