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Design Quotes
"Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated."
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"Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose."
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"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design."
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"I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself."
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"Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design."
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"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."
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"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
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"Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures."
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"It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed."
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"Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone."
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"So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time."
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"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."
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"Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service."
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"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
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"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
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"For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind."
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"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering."
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"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."
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"But active programming consists of the design of new programs, rather than contemplation of old programs."
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
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"I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May '43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in '42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn't have any priority in design or production."
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"If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls."
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"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
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"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."
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"I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad."
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"Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting."
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"The Court is most vulnerable and comes nearest to illegitimacy when it deals with judge-made constitutional law having little or no cognizable roots in the language or design of the Constitution."
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"I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality."
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"I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate."
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"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
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"I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving."
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