Top 1200 Architectural Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.

My wife and I are art collectors and architectural crazies.

It fills one with a sense of architectural possibility.

I really don't over-theorize about design. I'd rather feel it than talk it to death. A lot happens as you unroll the design.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

It's legendary how architectural lectures can be incredibly boring.

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

At the most basic level, prioritizing design also represents a practical consideration. It's far easier to design first and engineer later.

Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

I was first drawn to active wear because I enjoy working out, and it's very important in this day in age. I really felt women were getting the tail end of the design in active wear; not getting the technology or design we deserved. It was reserved for men. We were getting the leftover work from the sports design houses.

Once evolution gets a good basic design, it tends to throw away the variants and concentrate on the near-infinite diversity within that design.

Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful . . . Great designers also pursue a mission. Great designers design with mankind in mind . . . The crossroads of science and art, innovation and inspiration are what I love about design.

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.'

I love the streets of Kolkata, and I admire the old architectural buildings.

A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

I've never mentioned this, but when I was at Parsons teaching, the other design disciplines, they don't like fashion design. They see it as very nineteenth-century.

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy. Obviously it's more than just a set of rules, but the basics of design are actually pretty simple and quite mathematical. The link between data and design works at quite a fundamental level.

There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

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.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.

My earliest design work was print, and that was my first love. Of course, as the years went on, I did more and more Web design and less and less print. And like everyone who made the switch from print to Web design, I bemoaned the lack of control.

A Grand Design we couldn't see because we were part of it. A Grand Design we only got occasional, fleeting glimpses of. A Grand Design involving the entire course of history and all of time and space that, for some unfathomable reason, chose to work out its designs with cats and croquet mallets and penwipers, to say nothing of the dog. And a hideous piece of Victorian artwork. And us.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don't design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

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.

Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.

I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.

I simply love classic design when it's reinterpreted. These collections reflect the spirit of this design philosophy; clean pared down lines and forms rooted in tradition yet made to feel new and modern with unexpected or stylized scale, finishes and detailing. This contemporary take on tradition creates a look that's at once current yet timeless, fresh yet familiar…the essence of both beautiful design and a beautifully designed home.

Yes, my children are fascinated by design of technology and computers. And I am very happy with that. Today design is a wide world; it doesn't have to be interiors or architecture. It could be anything.

For an architect's son, I am remarkably unformed in my architectural tastes.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.

Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.

It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he prints the paper.

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

I brought a lot of my own pieces of clothes to the design room when I first met with the design team just so they could see what my style was like.

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

My undergrad degree was in graphic design, and I don't work in that anymore, but I obviously do a lot of design and editing and Photoshopping, and the Adobe Creative Cloud is essential!

The themes in WordPress drive a lot of design trends. It democratizes design... You make a theme, and suddenly it's on hundreds and thousands of sites.

I don't look at a lot of design. I try to stay focused on making sculptural art pieces and somehow translating them into design.

I studied literature design and fashion design.

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Verbalizing design is another act of design.

Supply and demand regulate architectural form.

There is a new hunger in the air for automotive design and looking to where automobiles are going in the future. Tesla will capture this through good design and engineering.