Quotes About Design

We find that often the only way to determine the timetable for a project is by gaining experience on that same project. This needn't be a paradox if you practice incremental development, repeating the following steps with very thin slices of functionality: Check requirements Analyze risk (and prioritize riskiest items earlier) Design, implement, integrate Validate with the users

Fra le tante cose che suscitano nell'uomo una sensazione di impotenza, l'architettura è più di ogni altra arte soggetta a condizionamenti. Luogo, materiale, destinazione, grandezza, costi, le bizzarre richieste del cliente, e inoltre i carpentieri, gli imbianchini, i mobilieri... [...] Una casa come testamento significa una casa come piacerebbe a me.

Function must dictate form.

Once you lose the discipline of functionality as a design guidepost, the imagination runs amok.

Buy less; buy better. Make fewer styles; design better.

Or as Dieter Rams, head of design at Braun, maintains, "Good design is as little design as possible.

After all, you can storm the house of a novel like Barthes, rearranging the furniture as you choose, or you can enter on your knees, like the pilgrim Nabokov thought you were, and try to figure out the cunning design of the place - the house will stand either way.

So the struggle for existence continued till I seemed to see all the world before me with its myriads of wild creatures preying upon one another; the spirit of nature, unquenchable as the fires of the sun, continuing ceaseless and imperturbable in its inscrutable design.

Nobody needs an abundance of plaid.

I really want to do accessories, it's been something I'm interested in.

I decided to do everything around fashion but fashion itself, and that's accessories.

Books are always the best accessories to anything.

The goal, and the ultimate achievement, is to make people feel as well as think.

Interestingly, when it comes to fashion, I like the styling part more than I like the actual fashion.

I am a very aesthetic person.

My aim is to make the wearer look beautiful.

I always wanted to make aliens that looked like '60s aliens.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.

Anytime I think about my office, I think about creativity.

When I sit down and design, it's shoes that always appear.

I often wonder what the world would be like if more companies were like Apple.

Our approach at Apple has always been to make products we're proud to own and use ourselves.

As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.