Design Quotes - Page 14

The book designer strives for perfection; yet every perfect thing lives somewhere in the neighborhood of dullness and is frequently mistaken for it by the insensitive.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

Good design is good business.

I've always thought of the sky as, like, an open canvas. When I was a kid and I looked at the sky, I always remember being able to daydream, just looking at the sky, being creative, being able to design things. What would happen if we had no sky? Where would we be? Well, obviously, scientifically, without an atmosphere, we'd all be dead.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it.

Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

Math is easy; design is hard.

Good design, when done well, should be invisible.

Designers are not users.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.

The designer must think first and work later.

Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realizes that, for a new font to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognize its novelty.

The strongest logos tell simple stories.

Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.