Quotes About Design

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I read the GAO report, and it reminds me of a review I read of Lady Chatterley's Lover in the magazine Field and Stream. The reviewer of that book knew as much about the real purpose of Lady Chatterley's Lover as the GAO knows about the design and development of submarines.

Instead of thinking about addiction, it makes sense to confront this reality: We are faced with technologies to which we are extremely vulnerable and we don't always respect that fact. The path forward is to learn more about our vulnerabilities. Then, we can design technology and the environments in which we use them with these insights in mind. For example, since we know that multitasking is seductive but not helpful to learning, it's up to us to promote "unitasking.

In debugging, errors are seen not as false but as fixable. This is a state of mind that makes it easy to learn from .6 Multiple passes also brought a new feel for the complexity of design decisions.

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

There's definitely space for uniqueness in a home console.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Intelligent Design'] is a theology for control freaks.

The shapes of letters do not derive their beauty from any sensual or sentimental reminiscences' he wrote. 'No one can say that the O's roundness appeals to us only because it is like that of an apple or a girl's breast or of the full moon. Letters are things, not pictures of things

Type has rhythm, just like music.

Everybody wants to design a bloody typeface.

Most people take the way words look for granted ... Words are there to be read – end of story. Once however typomania sets in, it becomes quite a different story.

industry without art is brutality".

O cambiarte el nombre por Neville Brody. Si fueras él, habrías entrado a trabajar en la revista londinense The Face en 1981 y habrías transformado su diseño, asaz predecible, de manera tal que tu estilo reverberaría no solo en otras revistas sino en libros, discos y otros muchos aspectos del diseño comercial de las siguientes décadas.

Beatrice Warde: "La copa de cristal o por qué el arte de la impresión debe ser invisible". Su teoría, sencilla pero contundente, defendía que incluso el mejor tipo de letra existía solo con el objetivo de comunicar una idea. No había sido creado para ser visto y mucho menos para ser admirado. Cuanto más visible la fuente o la maquetación de una página, peor la tipografía. (...) Cuanto más transparente el cristal, más se apreciará su contenido.

The lettering is clean, beautifully proportioned, easily read, and, well, ordered.

It was the best of Times New Roman, it was the worst of Times New Roman.)

The mid-century Conservative Party in England had arrived at a universal font truth: we tend to treat the traditional and familiar as trustworthy. We are dubious of fonts that alert us to their difference, or fonts that seem to be trying too hard. We don't like being consciously sold things, or paying for fancy design we don't need.

Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

Magic has a fondness for patterns and repetition.

What is this?' 'A Smart Car' It looked like an SUV took a dump and out came the Smart Car

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

Our view. . . is that it is an essential characteristic of experimentation that it is carried out with limited resources, and an essential part of the subject of experimental design to ascertain how these should be best applied; or, in particular, to which causes of disturbance care should be given, and which ought to be deliberately ignored.