Quotes about design
design evolution blunders
Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design. Oliver Sacks
design poet epitaph
Poet: gardener of epitaphs. Octavio Paz
design identity pages
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product. Ellen Lupton
design spacing graphic-artist
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
design events peculiar
Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design. Ellen Glasgow
design-work special pieces
Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture. Ellen DeGeneres
design heavyweights fleeing
The combination of threads, remote-procedure-call interfaces, and heavyweight object-oriented design is especially dangerous... if you are ever invited onto a project that is supposed to feature all three, fleeing in terror might well be an appropriate reaction. Eric S. Raymond
design desire virtue
The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
design luck suffering
I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse. Heidi Julavits
design designer ill
The ill design is most ill for the designer. Hesiod
design zeus hard
Aegis-bearing Zeus has a design for each occasion, and mortals find this hard to comprehend.
design looks want
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs. Herodotus
design elements ensemble
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. Henry Petroski
design decision decision-making
Design is nothing if not decision making.
design-process vocabulary study
Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what went wrong in the case study.
design typography testing
It is freely admitted that this "testing" is far from ideal and could even be described as anecdotal. Eric Gill
design looks care
If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.
design letters fool
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
design campaigns united-states
A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy. John Holdren
design challenges needs
The need for de-development presents our economists with a major challenge. They must design a stable, low-consumption economy in which there is a much more equitable distribution of wealth than in the present one. Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.
design different brilliance
Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different. John Hockenberry
design detect discover evolution longer looks means process random
Evolution no longer looks like a random process to me; it looks like a set-up job. My sense is that we'll discover the means to detect the design scientifically. Michael Behe
design dividing processes roles team web
Every Web team has its own take on dividing up roles and responsibilities and implementing processes for design and development.
design speak should
The design should make the product speak to you. Dieter Rams
design good-design products
Good design makes a product understandable.
design honest good-design
Good design is honest.
design promise doe
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.
design good-design products
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
design-process arbitrary care
Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.
design psychological certain
A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
design simplicity littles
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
design engineers features resist specific structures understanding valuable
An understanding of its specific features will be valuable to engineers who need to design structures to resist progressive collapse.
designing engineer runway
An engineer is designing the runway right now.