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What does design mean to you? Is it just that what it looks or feels like? What is the difference between style and design and what in the end differentiates good design from great design?
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Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood.
Andrew Grove
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Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
Joe Sparano
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Where do new ideas come from? The answer is simple: differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
Nicholas Negroponte
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Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.
Paul Arden
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If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
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The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize, and glean insights that enable him or her to ‘make the invisible visible.
Hillman Curtis
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Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
Massimo Vignelli
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Those who don’t build must burn.
Ray Bradbury
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It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people’s lives.
Don Norman
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Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs
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If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.
Ralf Speth
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You don’t think your way to creative work. You work your way to creative thinking.
George Nelson
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If you do it right, it will last forever.
Massimo Vignelli
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I have several times made a poor choice by avoiding a necessary confrontation
John Cleese
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Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
Brian Reed
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Henry Ford
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Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked. If one brings up an idiosyncratic question, the answer he gives will necessarily be unique as well.
Kenya Hara
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Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem.
John Maeda
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There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.
Massimo Vignelli
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Design everything on the assumption that people are not heartless or stupid but marvelously capable, given the chance.
John Chris Jones
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Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Leave it better than you found it.
Robert Baden-Powell
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There is no such thing as a boring project. There are only boring executions.
Irene Etzkorn
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Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.
John Maeda
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The time it takes to make a decision increases as the number of alternatives increases.
William Edmund Hick
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Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs
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Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.
Paul Rand
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Simplicity, wit, and good typography.
Michael Bierut
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Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.
Dave McClure
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Practice safe design: Use a concept.
Petrula Vrontikis
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They don’t want quarter-inch bits. They want quarter-inch holes.
Leo McGinneva
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Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.
M.C. Escher
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
Charles Eames
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Great design is a multi-layered relationship between human life and its environment.
Naoto Fukasawa
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert Einstein
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Creativity is only as obscure as your reference.
Unknown
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Get in over your head as often and as joyfully as possible.
Alexander Isley
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Design is so simple. That’s why it’s so complicated.
Paul Rand
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher
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No. I don’t think the Empire had Wookiees in mind when they designed it, Chewie.
Han Solo
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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.
Elon Musk
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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
Jay-Z
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist, and evolutionary strategist.
Buckminster Fuller
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A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it’s not that good.
Martin LeBlanc
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Design isn’t crafting a beautiful textured button with breathtaking animation. It’s figuring out if there’s a way to get rid of the button altogether.
Edward Tufte
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I would be happy to learn just half the stuff I already thought I learned
Unknown
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Put hot triggers in the path of motivated people.
B.J. Fogg
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