Design Quotes - Page 31

Object-oriented design is the roman numerals of computing.

Places matter. Their rules, their scale, their design include or exclude civil society, pedestrianism, equality, diversity (economic and otherwise), understanding of where water comes from and garbage goes, consumption or conservation. They map our lives.

There can be no reproach to pain unless we assume human dignity, there is no reason for restraints on pleasure unless we assume human worth, there is no legitimacy to monotony unless we assume a greater purpose to life, there is no purpose to life unless we assume design, death has no significance unless we seek what is everlasting.

Design the life you want to live.

So that is the design process or the creative process. Start with a problem, forget the problem, the problem reveals itself or the solution reveals itself and then you reevaulate it. This is what you are doing all the time.

If we had no bias, if we had no preconceptions, what kind of forms could we design?

There's a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

When we say there is a GOD, we mean that there is an intelligent designing cause of what we see in the world around us, and a being who was himself uncaused.

Grid systems in graphic design

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don’t have to go through any training to get there When a design is not intuitive, our attention moves away from what we’re trying to accomplish to how we can get the interface to accomplish what we want.

I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible.

The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.

I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.

The thing that's important is not something called design; it's how you live, its life itself. Design really comes from that. You cannot separate what you do from your life.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.

Up to a point, it is better to just let the snags [bugs] be there than to spend such time in design that there are none.

Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.