Quotes About Design

You can blame the "stupid user" all you want, but you still have to staff those phones with expensive tech-support people if you want to sell or distribute within your company software that hasn't been designed.

Interaction design isn't merely a matter of aesthetic choice; rather, it is based on an understanding of users and cognitive principles.

Many developers and usability professionals still approach interface design by asking what the tasks are. Although this may get the job done, it won't produce much more than an incremental improvement: It won't provide a solution that differentiates your product in the market, and very often it won't really satisfy the user.

Interaction design is not guesswork.

Acknowledge beauty when you see it. Even if its appearance disturbs you, surely you can admire the skill that went into its design.

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we are perfectly designed to achieve what we are currently achieving. If Christianity is in decline, at least part of the issue goes to the contemporary way we live out faith in a watching world.

Television should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.

Jefferson loved order, symmetry, and balance, and there was no place on the mountaintop more orderly, symmetrical, and balanced than the garden,

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."

The place is of no concern to them. They've left it to fester. An informational dead zone. The abstraction doesn't penetrate here, by design. The dome rebuffs it. The family craved their privacy, their insularity. My alert was a simple radio frequency trigger, with just enough power to reach beyond the estate. A risk even in that, but one worth taking." "You keep saying them," Dreyfus said. "For a reason," Stasov answered.

It's one thing to be given a big boxful of theory and quite another to make an engine out of it.

I don't want to be a celebrity designer. I want to keep my personal life out of it.

Rooney Mara is someone I'd like to dress; we've not worked with her before and she certainly has very interesting personal style.

My personal style is very eclectic. I like graphic shapes and multiple layers.

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

I love how the sewers express their vision. They all have their own personalities, and that's what they bring to the room.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.

When I meet celebrities, I have to know what they are like and only then can I design. The clothes have to fit their personality.

He's computerized, but I won't let him come on cold. I created KITT. I understand the personality of the car.

You have to put your own personality into your home. Do what you feel is you!

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.