Quotes About Design

a pleasing geometric pattern maximising firegrid interceptions,

When you're designing for extremes with software, the three most important "extremes" to remember are: 1. Design for people who can't read. 2. Design for people who can't use a mouse. 3. Design for people who have such bad memories they would forget their own name if it weren't embossed on their American Express

Because." He leaned forward, his hand slipping up her back to unerringly trace the scar tissue of the design burned there, now concealed under the robe. "Someone drew you wings a long time ago and you've been trying to decide whether to fly away ever since." <…> "And because when I look at you, I think you're a gift from God.

goes back to the design of the brain…. It's designed to pay attention to the stuff that matters to you.

Tristan taught me that the phones we have, and the programs that run on them, were deliberately designed by the smartest people in the world to maximally grab and maximally hold our attention

were deliberately designed by the smartest people in the world

It's not your fault you can't focus. It's by design. Your distraction is their fuel.

Jarod Lanier - a veteran Silicon Valley engineer - told me he used to be a consultant for loads of dystopian Hollywood movies, like Minority Report, but he had to stop because he kept designing ever-more frightening technologies to warn people of what was coming - and designers kept responding by saying that's so cool; how do we make that?

better techniques being discovered every week. One day, when we were walking in San Francisco, Tristan said to me: "Things look pretty bad from the outside, but when you're on the inside, things can look even worse." Tristan was starting to realize: It's not your fault you can't focus. It's by design. Your distraction is their fuel.

One day, James Williams—the former Google strategist I met—addressed an audience of hundreds of leading tech designers and asked them a simple question: "How many of you want to live in the world you are designing?" There was a silence in the room. People looked around them. Nobody put up their hand.

one of my biggest learnings as a designer or technologist is—making something easy to use doesn't mean it's good for humanity.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed."

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

I call architecture frozen music.

I think the future of architecture does not lie so much in continuing to fill up the landscape, as in bringing back life and order to our cities and towns.

It was curious how life seemed to weave a pattern that was not in the least haphazard, as it so often seemed to be.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.

Life is all about seating and lighting.

Fail to plan, plan to fail.

Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use.

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.