Top 1200 Urban Design Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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

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.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.

I like to design my clothes; I design my jewelry, yeah. It's fun.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; it's too realistic. When I design, I dream.

Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.

I know what I am doing with my handbag design and clothing design.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Good design means as little design as possible.

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

I did a brief stint with set design and stage design. And I tried playwriting, too.

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

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

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.

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

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

I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.

In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.

The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

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.

No design is possible until the materials with which you design are completely understood

The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

My personal style reflects my music. My music and how I dress is just how I express myself; it's just me. My music is urban pop, and my style of dressing is urban but still girly. I like that combination. The contrast is very nice.

By 2050, seven out of ten people will live in cities, which will account for six billion people living in urban areas. That phenomenon is central to all the challenges humanity faces. If there is an issue to be addressed, then it is certainly happening in cities and therefore must be considered on an urban scale.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

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.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

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

Design isn't risky?-?change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

Invention is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration. Thomas Edison I don't design clothes, I design dreams.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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!

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 principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design.

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

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

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

Companies that are design-led understand that design is not a deliverable; it is a profound manifestation of the human spirit.

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.

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

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

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.

When we changed from Tiger to Nike, we had to have a design for the shoe. And where do you go to? There's no 'dial 9-1-1' for design.

Critical design aims to really push the boundaries of design and to reconsider the element of fiction.

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.

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'.

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.