Design Quotes - Page 15

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

Design is more of a kitchen than a knife, and more of a lab than a beaker.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

Innovation is often the ability to reach into the past and bring back what is good, what is beautiful, what is useful, what is lasting.

Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.

It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning.

What I'm trying to produce is the visual equivalent of the chord change that makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture  -  especially the innovation culture  -  of a company.

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

Do work you love and are passionate about, look outside of the world of graphic design for inspiration.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.