I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
Car designers are just going to have to come up with an automobile that outlasts the payments.
There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal.
I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him.
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
A good design is not a democratic consensus.
... as a slow-witted human being I have a very small head and I had better learn to live with it and to respect my limitations and give them full credit, rather than to try to ignore them, for the latter vain effort will be punished by failure.
There are many possible approaches to Australian garden design, and they all reflect the designer's individual response to gardens. For my part, I love all things most gardeners abhor... I like the whole thing to be as wild as possible, so that you have to fight your way through in places.
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.
I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.
The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important.
I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing
If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.
Everyday people are not very good designers.
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.
