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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
- Character
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Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
- Bridge
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My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
Design firms and progressive companies rely on many of the same tools: rapid prototyping, observational research, creative thinking, collaborative work environments, and multidisciplinary teams.
- Everyone
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Design is the Zeppo Marx of management disciplines - the one that everyone seems to forget.
- Art
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Pure art is a noble pursuit. Applied art is a business. That's one reason design firms have been so eager of late to add consulting and manufacturing to their core aesthetic competencies.
- Knowledge
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When designing your product, go beyond consumers' current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do.
- Know
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The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
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I'm afraid that it's not possible to design a defense against every conceivable threat that you can think of.
- Glass
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My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
- Criterion
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By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.
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In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
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It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
- Problems
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.
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