Design Quotes - Page 40

A great product isn't just a collection of features. It's how it all works together.

When you study art history, you learn that there is very little that is completely new, and in many ways digital art is no different. I love to derive inspiration from all types of images: mosaics, hieroglyphics, petroglyphs, woven patterns in textiles, and needlework. There is a lot of very good "pixel" design work before the 20th century, like a 1760 sampler by Elizabeth Laidman that looks like a bitmap font.

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.(when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer )

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather carefully thought out...The seemingly miraculous concurrence of these numerical values must remain the most compelling evidence for cosmic design.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs.

THE PATH OF PEACE is exceedingly vast, reflecting the grand design of the hidden and manifest worlds. A warrior is a living shrine of the divine, one who serves that grand purpose.

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum aesthetic results, so God tailor-made our bodies, souls and spirits to work together in consonance to produce pleasing expressions of praise and worship. When we use body language to express praise, that which is internal becomes visible.

With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

You only get one shot in your life and you might as well push yourself and try things. There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie; the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations. It's a great, great thing to be involved in if you have the headspace for it, and I do. Try anything once.

The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend enough time exploring before locking themselves into a design approach.

Life solves its problems with well-adapted designs, life-friendly chemistry and smart material and energy use.

If you only design menus that are essentially junk or fast food, the whole infrastructure supports junk.