Top 1200 Sound Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.
Design isn't risky?-?change is. Good design mitigates that risk.
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'. — © Roger Martin
When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.
Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.
The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
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.
The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.
Artists are creating their own genre sound, and other artists are building upon that sound and already creating a huge subculture created around one particular sound created by one artist. So, with all that happening, the genres are going to break down, and there's going to be a multitude of sound coming out.
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.
If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support.
Design-wise, I look at everything. If I don't personally design it, I'll review it. I'm kind of creative director of the firm.
Good design means as little design as possible. — © Dieter Rams
Good design means as little design as possible.
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'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.
The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.
Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
I'm not going for a soft sound. I ain't lookin' for a warm sound. My sound is warm, but I don't need tubes to do it. The Randall RG-100 is the best amp for what I do.
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.
Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.
Now, what happens whenever there's a loud sound is that it startles us, right? And we arrest what we're doing, and we try to localize that sound because that sound could be a threat. That's something that's hard-wired in our bodies.
My dark sound could be heard across a room clearer than somebody with a reedy sound. It had more projection. My sound always seemed to fill a room.
I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.
Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.
Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.
People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
Watson, ... if I can get a mechanism which will make a current of electricity vary in its intensity, as the air varies in density when a sound is passing through it, I can telegraph any sound, even the sound of speech.
Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.
If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.
Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you. The one no one talks of speaks the secret sound to himself, and he is the one who has made it all.
I know what I am doing with my handbag design and clothing design.
I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.
Design is not so much a design issue as a power struggle.
There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down, hacking methodically at the earth. It was the sound of a grave.
There's so many things about Babymetal you cannot just grasp with the sound. The visual has to compliment the sound, the costumes have to compliment the sound.
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design. — © Mickey Drexler
Steve Jobs, if he had lived, was gonna design an iCar. I think cars have an extraordinary opportunity for cool design.
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.
A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective.
I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.
I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.
In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.
Design may be the logical solution to a problem, but it's never a formula. Design grows out of clarity of purpose.
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.
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. — © Matt Mullenweg
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.
You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.
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.
Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.
I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.
Outlier' came together pretty quickly. There's no real telling why that happens, sometimes the thing is just more intricate and takes longer you know, there's actual labour to be done in terms of sound design whereas other things are much freer.
Good restaurant design is about achieving equilibrium between the food, service, and design - in effect, telling a complete story.
Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.
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.
I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.
Urban design is where the number are and easy size of installation plus the fast lessons to extend out to larger design acreage.
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