Quotes About Design

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology it's the box it comes in.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

When you design it, think how you would feel if you had to fly it! Safety first!

Designing a system for intrinsic responsibility could mean, for example, requiring all towns or companies that emit wastewater into a stream to place their intake pipes downstream from their outflow pipe.

Physical structure is crucial in a system, but is rarely a leverage point, because changing it is rarely quick or simple. The leverage point is in proper design in the first place.

Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.

[Skin is] the first line of defense for the body. … Our building skins should be more similar to human skin.

Unix was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

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cell phones were the ultimate distraction, carefully designed and evolved to become as addictive as possible.

The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.

about cycling deaths in London written by a woman can be framed through the headline: 'Roads Designed by Men are Killing Women'.10 Such rhetoric exacerbates any existing divisions and each time creates a number of new ones. And for what purpose? Rather than showing how we can all get along better, the lessons of the last decade appear to be exacerbating a sense that in fact we aren't very good at living with each other.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over.

I'm opinionated. I always stick to my design plan. I don't waver.

In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project.

Being in the design industry, I've tended to meet more people who are affected by HIV and AIDS.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

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.

God moves into our lives by divine design, to periodically disturb our equilibrium. That's how he develops us.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.