Quotes about design
designed moved owned written
I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk. Steve Berry
designers work
I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them. Carine Roitfeld
designed minimal people pose risk
I feel like clemency was designed for people like me. I pose a minimal risk to the community.
design sort
I don't want to be too harsh, but there's very little evidence for 'intelligent design' or any sort of creator. Jose Gonzalez
designers directors love table talking work
I don't like the table work where I'm talking about myself, I'm talking about the play, what I meant. I love when actors and directors and designers say, 'What if we did it this way?' Or 'Did you ever think of doing this?' Or 'I see it in a different way. May I show you?' Paula Vogel
design today planning
We will have to decide today whether we will design the future or resign ourselves to it. Hubert H. Humphrey
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 enables structure system
By design, our licensing structure enables nimble and forward-thinking system manufacturers to disadvantage their competitors.
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. Ellen Lupton
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. Edward Tufte
design confusing information
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design. Edward Tufte
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. Edward Tufte