Quotes About Design

They even owned an automobile, a cherry-red Lada that on occasion actually performed the function for which it was designed and assembled.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a lot of effort into the design and production of the book-as-object.

One of the most powerful ways to design your life is to design your lives.

Ducks are masterfully designed, down to the smallest detail, for both aquatic and terrestrial life.

Nothing was left to chance; every smell, every piece of furniture, and certainly the design of the floor plans made these model homes world-class.

According to Aza Raskin, the smartphone's infinite scroll feature (which allows us to swipe down continuously without clicking) was deliberately built to be habit-forming. He should know. He's the engineer who created it.

Social security was never intended to be a retirement plan. At most, it was designed to provide an income supplement.

I actually started as a model builder and quickly progressed into production design, which made sense because I could draw and paint. But I kept watching that guy over there who was moving the actors around and setting up the shots.

I know everything I said works because I designed it personally for me only and washed, rinsed, repeated, and recycled the process over 1000 times in my life with each cake I Baked

All things happen for a purpose.

And yet it's not really an experiment as much as it is … constructing a blueprint.

We have more than enough data to create a blueprint.

Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

I don't design down to a price.

When you say 'design ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design, where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.

I'm not into politics but I am committed to a cause: ensuring design technology and engineering stays on the U.K. curriculum, alongside science and maths - grounding abstract theory, merging the practical with the academic.

The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like.

We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are.

Creating great experiences is not about individual touchpoint optimization but rather how touchpoints come together into a unified whole.

In a broader sense, visualizations inform strategy. They are a key way of seeing the market from the customer's perspective. Mapping experiences isn't a nice-to-have design tool; it's a must-have for strategic alignment.