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• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Garbage Cans, Differences

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• I have been called an eco-designer simply because I use wood. But I am not an eco-designer, nor does the use of wood make me one. I am a designer who cares about the effect of what I do, and about making good things for people to keep and cherish - that, surely, is simply the basic condition for 'good design'?

  David Trubridge

  People, Design, Who Cares

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• The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you should influence the way people evolve globally. It's good to have an influence. I feel like people on the street today probably dress better than they did in the '50s.

  Olivier Theyskens

  People, Design, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

  Spider Robinson

  Design, Failing, Over It

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• Australia has always put out some good design, particularly environmental graphics. I associate that with Australia, more so that a lot of other places. Whether that has anything to do with the landscape, who knows?

  Michael Bierut

  Australia, Design, Environmental

  Source: facingsideways.com

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• I think we all have those particular pieces of clothes that we really like, because it ages well, because it fits you well, because you feel comfortable, and you feel confident in those clothes. All those aspects of good design are what I'm interested in.

  Christophe Lemaire

  Thinking, Clothes, Design

  "The Beauty in the Basics". Interview with Natalia Barr, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 28, 2016.

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• The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

  Khoi Vinh

  Jobs, Opportunity, Hands

  Source: bigthink.com

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• To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. Design is how you treat your customers. If you treat them well from an environmental, emotional, and aesthetic standpoint, you're probably doing good design.

  Yves Behar

  Emotional, Glasses, Design

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• Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

  Tim Brown

  Technology, Design, Needs

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• Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

  Rands

  Design, Decision, Irrelevant

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• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  Nate Berkus

  Jobs, Antiques, Designer

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• Good design is honest.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Honest

  "The power of good design Dieter Rams’s ideology, engrained within Vitsœ", www.vitsoe.com.

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• To me, music and fashion are the same thing. A good designer is the same as an incredible musician, and the two go hand in hand.

  Zomby

  Fashion, Musician, Incredibles

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's design and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Art, Perfect, Design

  "Women In Design: Diane Von Furstenberg". Interview with David Colman, www.elledecor.com. October 18, 2010.

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• The people have a right supreme
  To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
  All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
  Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
  Successionm for the general good design'd,
  In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.

  John Dryden

  Kings, People, Design

  John Dryden (2002). “Selected Poems”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Good design is thorough down to the last detail - Nothing must be arbitrary or left to chance. Care and accuracy in the design process show respect towards the consumer.

  Dieter Rams

  Design Process, Care, Lasts

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• A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

  May-Britt Moser

  Perfection, Focus, Excellence

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• The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.

  Alexander Girard

  Lying, Believe, Design

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• Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

  Sailor Jerry

  Simplicity, Design

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• Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and a deep reverence for the love of life.

  Millard Sheets

  Love Life, Clarity Of Purpose, Color

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• Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

  Charles James

  Cutting, Ideas, Design

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• Good design makes a product understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  Design, Products

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• Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Expression, People, Goal

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• Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure of language and form versus the simple, uniform application of visual elements) and more patience (persistence over time versus creative authoritarianism).

  William Drenttel

  Simple, Persistence, Ideas

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• Everyday people are not very good designers.

  Donald A. Norman

  People, Everyday, Designer

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