Design Quotes - page 29

Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated. (Dieter Rams)
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. View quote
Dieter Rams
Good design is thorough, down to the last detail. View quote
Dieter Rams
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. View quote
Dieter Rams
I am troubled by the devaluing of the word 'design'. I find myself now being somewhat embarrassed to be called a designer. In fact I prefer the German term, Gestalt-Ingenieur. Apple and Vitsoe are relatively lone voices treating the discipline of design seriously in all corners of their businesses. They understand that design is not simply an adjective to place in front of a product's name to somehow artificially enhance its value. Ever fewer people appear to understand that design is a serious profession; and for our future welfare we need more companies to take that profession seriously. View quote
Dieter Rams
An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep. View quote
Dieter Rams
Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer. View quote
Dieter Rams
Good design is honest. View quote
Dieter Rams
The design should make the product speak to you. View quote
Dieter Rams
The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users. View quote
Douglas Rushkoff
We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist. (Douglas Wilson)
What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor. View quote
Douglas Wilson
I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad. View quote
Douglas Wilson
In two days, it's hard to to get the quality you would normally want for a design project. View quote
Douglas Wilson
I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels. View quote
Douglas Wilson
Throughout the country, I see the same design problems and solutions over and over. View quote
Douglas Wilson
My stylist has really great taste - Petra Flannery has really great taste. I mean, I am opinionated, and as time goes on, as I've gotten to see more dresses or more clothes, it's easier to say, 'I like that' or 'I don't like that,' but it's nothing I would ever, you know, design. View quote
Emma Stone
I spearhead interior design for all Trump projects. View quote
Ivanka Trump
When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
If a major source of the nation's news is personalizing user experiences, people with different points of view will end up in echo chambers of their own design. Facebook didn't create that problem, but it shouldn't aggravate it. View quote
Cass Sunstein
When government programs aren't working, those on the Left tend to support more funding, while those on the Right want to scrap them altogether. It is better to ask whether the problem is complexity and poor design. We can solve those problems - sometimes without spending a penny. (Cass Sunstein)
It's one thing to make financial aid available to students so they can attend college. It's another thing to design forms that students can actually fill out. View quote
Cass Sunstein
If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old. View quote
Alison Gopnik
You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system. View quote
Jamie Dimon
I'd love to design bridal dresses. View quote
Lauren Conrad