Good Design Quotes

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  • Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning. We only notice it when it’s too hot, too cold, making too much noise, or the unit is dripping on us. Yet, if the air conditioning is perfect, nobody say anything and we focus, instead, on the task at hand.

    Thinking   Air   Hands  
  • 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.

  • Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

  • If his order from the president is to build a wall, John Kelly will build a wall. And I've got a design out there and I hope it's considered. There are other good designs out there. But he will get it done. He's a doer.

    Wall   Order   Design  
    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

    Paul Rand (2017). “Design, Form, and Chaos”, p.30, Yale University Press
  • After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

  • Good design is ubiquitous and forever.

  • I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

    Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub
  • I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

  • 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.

    Cutting   Ideas   Design  
  • No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What we call a good design is one which achieves integrity – that is, unity or wholeness – in balanced relation to its environment.

  • He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

    Heart   Artist   Hands  
  • I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

    Beer   Design   Trying  
    Daniel Defoe (1719). “Robinson Crusoe: The Illustrated Edition”, p.155, Top Five Books LLC
  • Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.

  • Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

    Death   Art   Simple  
    "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.
  • A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

  • 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.

  • Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  • To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far-reaching interests outside of the profession.

  • 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.

    "ASK OCE Interview: Five Questions for Dr. Henry Petroski". Interview with Henry Petroski, appel.nasa.gov. July 20, 2006.
  • Good design is honest.

    "The power of good design Dieter Rams’s ideology, engrained within Vitsœ", www.vitsoe.com.
  • Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

    Mean   Design   Bed  
    Source: www.printmag.com
  • Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

    Mean   Technology   Order  
  • Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.

    Fashion   White   Design  
    Interview with Scott Merrill, techcrunch.com. April 19, 2012.
  • 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).

  • 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.

    People   Design   Today  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  • Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

    Attitude   Design   Needs  
  • I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

  • A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

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