Design Quotes - Page 48

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in the design process, you find that they often have ingenious ideas about what would really help them. And it’s not a onetime thing; it’s an iterative process.

I was really just a hard-core geek, if you will, in 1996, and was building websites as a hobby. I started doing a lot of web design and development and built my first website on the now-defunct GeoCities platform.

Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.

If you never budge, don't expect a push.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

[The] dynamics of computational artifacts extend beyond the interface narrowly defined, to relations of people with each other and to the place of computing in their ongoing activities. System design, it follows, must include not only the design of innovative technologies, but their artful integration with the rest of the social and material world.

I live proudly in a body of my own design. I defend my right to be complex

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the President of the United States is authorized to present, on behalf of the Congress, a gold medal of appropriate design to the family of the late Honorable Leo J. Ryan in recognition of his distinguished service as a Member of Congress and the fact of his untimely death by assassination while performing his responsibilities as a Member of the United States House of Representatives.

I would say you've got to find your identity in God - in God alone - because everything else is a false sense of identity. He's the one who made you, he's your designer and your work and your value is found in him and not in anything or anyone else.

Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

Regardless of what the object of design is, humans need design. For anything humans use in their day to day life, they need design and it is a clear and concrete proof of the fundamental human right to live.

Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! Versace! We love Versace. Versace is the greatest designer of all time!

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

A garden without its statue is like a sentence without its verb.

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.