Design Quotes - Page 10

• If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

  Alan Cooper

  Want, Helpful, Respectful

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• The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in the shortest possible time and higher visual and auditory retention of data.

  Will Burtin

  Communication, Data, Ideas

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• Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

  Paola Antonelli

  Inspirational, Motivational, May

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• It's all about one thing: creative problem-solving to get the story out.

  Robert Greenberg

  Creative, Stories, Problem

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• But I find that for myself, without exception, the more I deal with the work as something that is my own, as something that is personal, the more successful it is.

  Marian Bantjes

  Successful, Deals, Exception

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• I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing

  Donald A. Norman

  People, Experts, Knows

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• Perfect typography is certainly the most elusive of all arts. Sculpture in stone alone comes near it in obstinacy.

  Jan Tschichold

  Art, Perfect, Sculpture

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• An enterprise's most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.

  Lee Kun-hee

  Business, Lying, Creativity

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• Good design makes a product understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  Good Design, Products

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• Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

  Jennifer Morla

  Moving, Issues

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• Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages).

  Norman Potter

  Communication, Simple, Decision

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• At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism.

  Erik Adigard

  Survival, Levels, Dots

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• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  Louis Kahn

  Architecture, Reaching, Reach Out

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• Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

  Robert L. Peters

  Opposites, Antidote, Happenstance

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• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  Igor Stravinsky

  Love, Marriage, Order

  Igor Stravinsky “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Complicated

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.

  William McDonough

  Dream, Firsts, Intention

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.

  Hartmut Esslinger

  Change, Business, People

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• White space is to be regarded as an active element, not a passive background.

  Jan Tschichold

  White, Space, Experience

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• Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
  and the richness with which this is experienced.

  John Pawson

  Experience, Architecture, Minimalism

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• The designer's role in the development, application and protection of the trademark may be described as pre-creative, creative and post-creative.

  Lester Beall

  Creativity, Creative, Roles

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• It requires a genuine fight to produce one well designed object of relatively permanent value

  George Nakashima

  Fighting, Woodworking, Requirements

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