Quotes About Design

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

original ideas are the easy part. Actually producing the idea as a successful product is what is hard.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.

I enjoy doing layoutproblems of design. I could very cheerfully be a typographer.

Our primary goal in product development is to make good economic choices. All proxy objectives, such as innovation, waste reduction, design for manufacturing, etc., should be viewed as secondary. They are a means to influence overall economic outcomes, never an end in themselves.

Your Heavenly Father has designed you so that approximately one-third of your life should be spent asleep. He himself rested after creating the heavens and the earth (see Gen 2:2-3).

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

I am the Soul. I am the Light Divine. I am Love. I am Will. I am Fixed Design.

Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity.

Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

I can claim to have made the daily life of the 20th Century more beautiful.

One should make one's life a mosaic. Let the general design be good, the colors lively, and the materials diversified.

Everything I know, see or hear, every part of my life is transformed into dresses. They are my daydreams, but they have passed from dreamland into the world of everyday items to wear.

There is a coherent plan to the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

I want to be able to work a piece of wood into an object that contributes something beautiful and useful to everyday life.

Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.

Everything in this life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences.

A house is more than just a shelter; that it is a way of improving your way of life.