Quotes About Design

Salen, K. 2007b. "Gaming Literacies: A Game Design Study in Action." Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia 16, no. 3:301-322. Salvia, J., and J.

According to God, the One who designed and instituted marriage, love is a choice. It's a matter of obedience, not emotion.

Man is programmed to find the programmer.

Ishigami's design. Yet it all still seemed too unreal to be true. Killing a person to hide a murder – who would think of something like that? Of course, that's the point. He didn't want us to think of it.

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I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, ABSURD in the highest possible degree.

If you design a system to do something specific, don't be surprised if it does it. If you run an education system based on standardization and conformity that suppresses individuality, imagination, and creativity, don't be surprised it that's what it does.

One of the best accounts of the principles and practices involved is Tim Brown's Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation.

People who work creatively usually have something in common: they love the media they work with.

Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.

Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit. God had created bedbugs to 'awaken us out of our sleep' and mice to encourage humans to be tidy.

I have told the story of the great plague-summer; as an artist I could have wished that there had been more structure and design to it – as a man, that there had been less of the kind there was.

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

Some of the teams who read and applied the first edition of this book didn't get the part of the message about the last responsible moment. They piled story on story as quickly as possible with the least possible investment in design. Without daily attention to design, the cost of changes does skyrocket. The result is poorly designed, brittle, hard-to-change systems.

If I have the same logic in two places, I work with the design to understand how I can have only one copy. Designs without duplication tend to be easy to change.

Call-by-reference went out of fashion in language design a couple of decades ago because of the possibility for unintended consequences.

A framework with all protected fields would be more immediately usable but harder to evolve later.

The purposes of two constructors with different sets of parameters are not always obvious, but the name of the factory methods can suggest the reason clients might want to create an object each way.

Don't make more versions of your source code. Rather than add more code bases, fix the underlying design problem that is preventing you from running from a single code base.

First a small team writes a small system. Then they find the natural fracture lines and divide the system into relatively independent parts for expansion. The architects help choose the most appropriate fracture lines and then follow the system as a whole, keeping the big picture in mind as the groups focus on their smaller section.

If you're happy slamming some code together that more or less works and you're happy never looking at the result again, TDD is not for you. TDD rests on a charmingly naïve geekoid assumption that if you write better code, you'll be more successful. TDD helps you to pay attention to the right issues at the right time so you can make your designs cleaner, you can refine your designs as you learn.

In software development, "perfect" is a verb, not an adjective. There is no perfect process. There is no perfect design. There are no perfect stories. You can, however, perfect your process, your design, and your stories.

McConnell writes, "In ten years the pendulum has swung from 'design everything' to 'design nothing.' But the alternative to BDUF [Big Design Up Front] isn't no design up front, it's a Little Design Up Front (LDUF) or Enough Design Up Front (ENUF)." This is a strawman argument. The alternative to designing before implementing is designing after implementing.