Quotes About Design

So that's our approach. Very simple, and we're really shooting for Museum of Modern Art quality. The way we're running the company, the product design, the advertising, it all comes down to this: Let's make it simple. Really simple." Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Form follows emotion

Nothing is more completely the child of Art than a Garden.

The elegant simplicity of Square (and that of Dorsey's earlier creation, Twitter) is a product of rigorous inquiry: Dorsey maintains that good design is about removing unnecessary features by continually asking, Do we really need this? and What can we take away?

Everything is at its best when it's doing exactly what it was created for. A lamp gives light. An apple gives sustenance and refreshment. A chair is perfect in being exactly what it is--a chair.

What is it?" Philip said. "I'm creating a work of confectionary art here." "Well

There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

It is really surprising what may be done in the home with a small can of paint, if you aren't careful.

Nothing is new except arrangement.

Of course, we and our animal cousins are quickly alerted to signs of opportunities to mate or to feed, and advertisers design billboards accordingly.

The photographer does not view the scene as a moment to be savored but as a future memory to be designed. Pictures

An essential design feature of the associative machine is that it represents only activated ideas. Information that is not retrieved (even unconsciously) from memory might as well not exist.

An inconsistency is built into the design of our mind.

Rationalism: In epistemology, the theory that truth begins and ends in the mind, not in the senses. It is the ultimate intellectualism, claiming that everything can be figured out deductively. For this to be so, reality has to have an intrinsically logical design; then all we have to do is really think about something and its nature will reveal itself right inside our beans.

I live with the fact that I don't know if there really is any meaningful cosmic order and, God knows, that is a continual frustration. But I don't understand why it should be any more frustrating to know that there is a grand design but I am unable to understand it. In both cases, I am in the cosmic dark.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

NEVER start sketching screens and then try to reverse-engineer a CM from them. This is a rookie mistake that can get you ejected from the Jedi academy.

Starting the design process focused on graphic design instead of interaction design is a common and costly amateur mistake. However, to deliver a professional quality experience, the execution stage must finish strong in this area. One of the economic advantages of conceptual model-based IxD is that, by the time high-fidelity mockup generation becomes appropriate, the foundation will be so stable that the graphic design work will require far fewer iterations.

In a computer-to-human conversation, there is less surrounding context than in a natural language. So… our cognition fails us in this quiz, and the best we can do is guess. This is why careful conceptual grammar construction is the foundation of quality IxD.

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