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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 always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth."
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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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"User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project."
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"Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful."
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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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"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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"Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it."
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"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format."
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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 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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"I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body."
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"After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America."
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"It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design."
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"Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors."
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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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"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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"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
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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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"Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design."
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"I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver."
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