Design Quotes - Page 59

Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation.

When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move stuff around in Photoshop, I put together a really quick CSS doc making my changes.

I was a generalist in college. You take a lot of courses to feel out what you're interested in. I really felt web design was too limited for me to interested in it - [instead] I was really into typography.

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves as the visitor expects. Poor or missing information architecture neuters content, design, and programming and devalues the site for its owners as well as the audience it was created to serve. It’s like a film with no director. The actors may be good, the sets may be lovely, but audiences will leave soon after the opening credits.

Good design can't fix broken business models.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

What users want is convenience and results.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

Dressing with style is akin to issuing a manifesto; dressing fashionably is like signing a petition.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

You can never design the best city, but you can design the best city you know how to design at this time.

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of a statue, into the very ideal presence whence these works have really originated. A great work always leaves us in a state of musing.