Quotes About Design

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

When in doubt, use Caslon.

I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own.

Conceptual integrity is the most important consideration in system design.

Software and hardware design is less different than software designers think, but more different than hardware designers think.

Consensus processes starve innovative design by eating the resource.

I design my start-up ventures around my own personal beliefs and values.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be. But it's also about the ability to do systems thinking.

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a 'day one' issue and part of everything.

Since the design of the movement is paramount, shape, for me, should have no significance.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

The ill design is most ill for the designer.

There's no way to design a society that's optimal or utopian. It's better than the one that was. Systems always undergo change.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .

The genius is a genius by the first look he casts on any object. Is his eye creative? Does he not rest in angles and colors, but beholds the design,--he will presently undervalue the actual object.

As a director you have to be careful you don't over-design the film. You have to be careful that the period aspect does not take over.

Always think of drawing, getting the forms realized, emphasizing the design.