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- Nov 07, 2020
Design Quotes
On design as history, craft, and a single creative umbrella.
A few quotes here take a long historical view, tracing design back to early stone tools and ancient flutes long before the word itself existed. For more, see Creativity quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.
- Challenges
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- Nov 07, 2020
With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't know how to design. I couldn't even if I wanted to, for I can't draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into.
- Product
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is always going to be that luxury customer out there. I have clients who buy $10,000 dresses and clients who buy $60 dresses. It's not so much about the money. Design is a mentality.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020