Quotes About Design

similar attention on the title bars atop windows and documents. He had Atkinson and Kare do them over and over again as he agonized over their look. He did not like the ones on the Lisa because they were too black and harsh. He

His product comes with an interesting feature called incompatibility," Gates told the Washington Post. "It doesn't run any of the existing software. It's a super-nice computer. I don't think if I went out to design an incompatible computer I would have done as well as he did.

Every month or so, Manock and Oyama would present a new iteration based on Jobs's previous criticisms. The latest plaster model would be dramatically unveiled

Steve Jobs has designed a powerful computer that an illiterate six-year-old can use without instruction," Noer wrote. "If that isn't magical, I don't know what is.

Gates was good at computer coding, unlike Jobs, and his mind was more practical, disciplined, and abundant in analytic processing power. Jobs was more intuitive and romantic and had a greater instinct for making technology usable, design delightful, and interfaces friendly. He had a passion for perfection, which made him fiercely demanding, and he managed by charisma and scattershot intensity.

Well, it's a start," Jobs said, "but basically, it stinks. The background color is too dark, some lines

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Thus was born the iPod, the device that would begin the transformation of Apple from being a computer maker into being the world's most valuable company.

But they both believed that a divine design was reflected in the elegant laws that governed the way the universe worked.

the time than they do in retrospect, and they show a love of design that was, on occasion, a bit too exuberant. But they set Apple apart and provided the publicity bursts

Queremos que, cuando abras la caja de un iPhone o de un iPad, la experiencia táctil condicione cómo vas a percibir el dispositivo, señaló.

Math was nature's playbook.

Como Spinoza, Einstein no creía en un Dios personal que interactuaba con el hombre. Pero sí creían ambos que había un diseño divino reflejado en las elegantes leyes que gobernaban el funcionamiento del universo.

But there was in these eyes an expression of art and design, and, on provocation, a ferocity tempered by caution

Think about it; the quicktank is given a job most of us would laugh out of town. Build a sophisticated camera capable of full 3-D input and peripheral pickup, using only water and jelly. Build an eye.

Okay. I've either reinvented the solar panel or I've made something for seagulls to fuck in.

it is as it was meant to be...

Enrique Peñalosa with a big and simple idea: that urban design should be used to make people happier.

The garden was not merely a biophilic intervention. It was a social machine.

By spending resources and designing cities in a way that values everyone's experience, life can get easier and more pleasant for everyone. We can make cities that are more generous and less cruel. We can make cities that help us all get stronger, more resilient, more connected, more active and more free. We just have to decide who our cities are for. And we have to believe that they can change.

We're living an experiment," he finally yelled back at me as he pocketed his cell phone. "We might not be able to fix the economy. We might not be able to make everyone as rich as Americans. But we can design the city to give people dignity, to make them feel rich. The city can make them happier." There it was, the declaration I have seen bring tears to so many eyes with its promise of urban revolution and redemption.

First, as I will explore in this book, our preferences—the things we buy, the places we choose to live—do not always maximize our happiness in the long run. Second, sprawl, as an urban form, was laid out, massively subsidized, and legally mandated long before anyone actually decided to buy a house there. It is as much the result of zoning, legislation, and lobbying as a crowded city block. It did not occur naturally. It was designed.

There is a message for all city makers here. It is that with the right triangulation, even the ugliest of places can be infused with the warmth that turns strangers into familiars by giving us enough reason to slow down.

of the culprit. Architecture next engaged his attention, and in 1657 he designed a house at Viry for his brother and supervised its construction.