Quotes about design
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.
designed meets
The meets are designed for swimmers at all different levels.
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
design pieces world
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. Norman Spinrad
design world want
The world's not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world. Norman Mailer
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 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
design photograph responsible
What you photograph is responsible for how a photograph looks - the form, the design, whatever word you want to use. Garry Winogrand
design photograph
There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.
design
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself. Frederick Buechner
design
I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own. Frank Gehry
design way execution
It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.
design gimmicks aesthetics
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. Ferdinand Porsche
design marketing driven
Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself. Seth Godin
design marketing influence
If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.
design lasts advantage
Design is the last great competitive advantage.
design rooms timeless
Rooms should be timeless. Sister Parish
design hip-hop culture
Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff. Skrillex
design feelings google
The demise of Google Reader, if logical, is a reminder of how far we've come from the cuddly old 'I'm Feeling Lucky' Google days, in which there was a foreseeably-astonishing delight in the way Google's evolving design tricks anticipated what users would like. James Fallows