Quotes About Design

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

This principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.

This most elegant system of the sun, planets, and comets could not have arisen without the design and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite,For God hath made them so.

I am going to design... a Station after my own fancy that is, with engineering roofs, etc.

Even when I work with computers, with high technology, I always try to put in the touch of the hand.

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.

plurality without Design is merely chaos.

Experience assists wisdom because the universe has been designed to make it so.

As there is something in our design like Furies to drive us down, so there is something in our design like Angels to help us up. If it were not so, we could not even be told about it. Yet we can. The indestructibility of our longing for lightness, for purity, for music is like a small star of hope in a darkened sky, an inkling of the Star that rules the day.

If it really were impossible to derive an ought from the is of the human design, then the practice of medicine would make no sense. Natural

An architect never repudiates anything she's loved.

Visual design proved to be a fifth wonder of life. Buildings, terra-cotta warriors in China, dams, and paintings appeared in stories of awe from around the world.

So far as I could tell, I was alone here, at least in this section. I wasn't happy about the way the corridor went up a little ways and disappeared around a bend. I decided then and there if I ever try to be an architect, all my buildings would borrow from my old high school gymnasium—a big, empty space where you can't possible hide anything. May not be much in the way of privacy, but there are advantages all right.

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

Credits Cover art © 2004 by Jim Paillot.

He talks some more about classes he likes--not many--and those he doesn't like, and it is clear that, whatever sophisticated planning has gone into curriculum design at Alan's school, the distinction between a good class and a bad class, from his point of view, has a lot to do with the freedom it offers to stand up and walk around.

books were not only important, they were also objects of beauty.

Microinteractions are an exercise in restraint, in doing as much as possible with as little as possible. Embrace the constraints and focus your attention on doing one thing well. Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different," said Dieter Rams.[

Every noun in your microinteraction should be unique. If you have two of the same nouns, consider combining them. Also make sure that any two (or more) nouns that look the same also behave the same. Don't have two similar buttons that act completely different. Objects that behave differently should look differently. Likewise, don't have the same noun work differently in different places.