Quotes about design
design wish would-be
I'm sure it's not any wish of mine that I'm born with inclinations for better things. If I could be born again, and had the designing of myself, I'd be born the lowest and coarsest-minded person imaginable, so that I could find plenty of companionship, or I'd be born an idiot, which would be better still. Miles Franklin
design attention may
An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. Joseph Addison
designed performance programs resulted review several systems
The introduction of several programs designed to review systems and program performance has resulted in efficiencies and cost-saving efforts.
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 park
The design of the drainage in the park is great.
designer guide quote tells tv
The designer tells TV Guide that it was -- quote -- ?brilliant, spontaneous, and just a quintessential Dolly Parton moment. Isaac Mizrahi
designers hat hats name swimming
The designers say it's not a fad. There's a hat for the swimming pool, picnics, weddings. Everything, you name it, there's hats for it.
designer emmy
The designer of my Emmy gown is donating my gown to the charity for an auction. Maria Menounos
design difference generation next scientific ship
The difference between the Voyager design and The Next Generation ship was the Voyager ship was more a scientific exploration ship.
design information clutter
Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design. Edward Tufte
design details add
Here's the general theory: To clarify, add detail. Imagine that. To clarify, add detail. And clutter and overload are not an attribute of information, they are failures of design. If the information is in chaos, don't start throwing out information, instead fix the design.
design confusing information
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
design maps information
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
design maps information
A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
design understanding tests
The essential test of design is how well it assists the understanding of the content, not how stylish it is.
design standards democratic
Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
design rescue
Design cannot rescue failed content.
design politics committees
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats. Henry Spencer
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 care action
It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so. Henry Fielding
designer british mario
I really like Roland Moret, Alexander McQueen and Marios Schwab, a young British designer. Naomie Harris
design pretending
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them. Napoleon Bonaparte