Design Quotes - Page 23

Technology may change rapidly, but people change slowly. The principals [of design] come from understanding of people. They remain true forever.

For productive collaboration adopt five principles: involve the relevant stakeholders, build consensus phase by phase, design a process map, designate a process facilitator and harness the power of group memory.

I have a secret thought from some things I have observed, that God may perhaps design you for some singular service in the world.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present.

Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing.

Good design is not an applied veneer.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected.

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

I remember a time at Yale when my work was being critiqued by Paul Rand. Mr. Rand told me only to use Helvetica as a display face never in text, then he squinted, leaned in, and whispered in my ear, "because Helvetica looks like dogshit in text".

I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

Never design anything that cannot be made.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The followers of intelligent design should openly and clearly declare the existence of Allah as the Creator.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.

A Porsche will always look like a Porsche. My grandfather took these shapes from nature, so the head lamps of the 911 maybe look a little like the eyes of a frog, but it comes from nature, and the best shapes are from nature, so why change?

Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

The business of schools is to design, create, and invent high-quality, intellectually demanding schoolwork that students find engaging.