Design Quotes - Page 13

A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

Good design doesn't date.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

You must be able to write. You must have a sense of form, of pattern, of design. You must have a respect for and a mastery over words.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

Birds are so much wiser than we! A robin builds a nest for robins. A seagull builds a nest for seagulls. They don't copy each other - or build themselves nests as described in The Birds' Decorating Magazine.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the physical world calls for the divine.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Yes, design can make you happy.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

Every little job counts. Design counts.

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.