Quotes about design
design may should
Even if I should never see a native converted, God may design by my patience and continuance in the Word to encourage future missionaries. Henry Martyn
design needs attention
But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets. Gina McCarthy
design designer users
Users are not designers. Jakob Nielsen
design elements principles
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. Jakob Nielsen
design designer users
Designers are not users. Jakob Nielsen
design grumpy website
A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson. Jakob Nielsen
design website backdrop
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. Jakob Nielsen
design may becoming
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. Jamais Cascio
design may sin
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. Isaac Barrow
design style mind
Style makes you feel great because it takes your mind off the fact that you're going to die. Isaac Mizrahi
design execution should
A work, however, should be judged by its design and its execution, and not by any preconceived notion of what it ought to be according to the critic, rather than the author. Isaac Disraeli
design great-design betray
A single word often betrays a great design. Jean Racine
design theatre acting
I was very interested in theatre, mostly in stage design. I did a little bit of acting. Jim Henson
design bells littles
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was. Jeffrey Kluger
design guy dunkin-donuts
Is there a homeless guy built in to the design of Dunkin' Donuts? ...There'll be an entrance here... a deranged lunatic here. Jim Gaffigan
design constraints stills
A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with. Jesse James Garrett
design trying trends
As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design. Jeff Fisher
design identity phrases
The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate." Jeff Fisher
design world
When the image is new, the world is new. Gaston Bachelard
design furniture scandinavia
They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese. Christian Lacroix
design modernism artificial
French design hardly exists, except as artificial modernism. Christian Lacroix
design mind projects
Designing is always on the mind of a designer, and as I was saying it's a sort of digestive process, so I usually keep it to myself unless I'm collaborating with someone because explaining all the things that are going on in your head can be quite exhausting, especially in the early stages of a project. Christian Louboutin
design age theater
At age 12 or 13, I wanted to design for showgirls - for the theater! Christian Louboutin
design gone likes
I've always been very detail orientated, but I have gone from embellishment to nudity - from designing for a woman that likes to be dressed to designing for a woman that likes to be undressed. Christian Louboutin
design guy wake-up
Science has done absolutely nothing about noise. The worst design flaw in the human body is that you can't close your ears. The reason you can't close your ears is, if a lion was coming, you had to wake up. Today no lions are coming. Beeping trucks are coming. I read the other day that the guy who invented the beep when trucks go backward, he died. I thought: Of course-he dies, I have to listen to it. Fran Lebowitz
design individuality hobbies
Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors. George Santayana
designer mets
I have never met a designer who was retained to keep things the same as they were George Nelson
design cooking architecture
Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. George Nelson
design social social-change
Design is a response to social change. George Nelson
design decoration
Content informs design; design without content is decoration. Jeffrey Zeldman
design absence graphic-design
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. Jeffrey Zeldman
design beginners needs
A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems. Jef Raskin
design want results
What users want is convenience and results. Jef Raskin