Quotes About Design

Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

The engineer, and more generally the designer, is concerned with how things ought to be - how they ought to be in order to attain goals, and to function.

The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to "make the invisible visible

My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.

Goal we've always had for design at Apple is to create solutions that are inevitable.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

My goal as a puzzle designer is to create a meaningful experience for the player, not just 'I solved it.'

Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Moving state and behavior between classes is the very essence of refactoring. As the system develops, you find the need for new classes and the need to shuffle responsibilities around. A design decision that is reasonable and correct one week can become incorrect in another. That is not a problem; the only problem is not to do something about it.

Poorly designed code usually takes more code to do the same things, often because the code quite literally does the same thing in several places.

First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

Architectural refactoring is hard, and we're still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn't impossible. Here the best

Danish kitchen manufacturers often use the term "Conversation Kitchen" to refer to an expensive, well-appointed kitchen that is used less often for cooking than it is as a theatrical backdrop for entertaining guests. I've

the Apple logo hangs from an unseen thread in many Apple Stores like a Bethlehem star?

It had a woman's feel for colour and space. Men tended to put things in the first place available and just leave them there. Women thought a room out, knew how a room would look at its best. Women, Kate had observed, took time with details. Small details that could make a room like this.

All the lessons of invention come down to this: The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.

Make a sketch, construct a model, or assemble a prototype. Then another. And another. With each attempt, you'll reveal new possibilities for innovation. Your mind will talk to your hands, and your hands will talk to your mind. This dialogue is called generative thinking, and it happens only when you're making something. It's the active ingredient of design.

Does design pay off? The Design Management Institute partnered with Motiv Strategies to measure the return on design investment where it counts—in stock values. Over a 10-year period, a $10,000 investment in design-centric companies would have yielded returns 228 percent greater than the same investment in the S&P 500. And this is only an average.

Relinquishing God's design for womanhood has devastating effects on the home, church, and culture. This battle for biblical womanhood is