Some websites are completely optimized for simple conver- sion, and it’s easy to tell. The design centers on one clear call to action, a vivid lozenge labeled with a verb.

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

We should be development-by-design,

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine providence in the daily affairs of life, may be the product of a brain adapted to finding patterns...

This is a very practical design.

I figured they could be together for the next three years. It was pretty much done by design.

There is no turning back. When you have that kind of clear message being delivered to the (design) teams, then it creates a different kind of mind-set. People start to think how they can make...

We are in an unusual place, … The design is as good as anything out there, but at a price that seems sensible.

…Because beauty is typically the result of a few qualities working in concert, it can take more to guarantee the appeal of a bridge or a house than strength alone. (p 205)

I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

I chose to design an identity for Southern Exposure Resort which is a fictional resort.

This is my logo for Steve

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising dinner date to one lucky winner.

Als een site is voorzien van een elegant design maar verder niet bruikbaar is, zal de site falen. Het omgekeerde is echter ook van toepassing! Als een site perfect bruikbaar is maar is voorzien van...

I love the big scale and immediate impact of posters. They’re my favourite things to design.

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.

Great design = getting people to do what you want.

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.

It is a uniquely American industry. Almost all of the technological developments in software and hardware design are coming out of the United States.

Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.

It’s excellence in leadership when everyone wants to manufacture a black shoe and you manufacture a designer black shoe with gold medal on top. Do something new; do something better!

It’s not Art. And Art is not Design.

The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.

For example, they recently had a piece on a character–I think his name was Ambrosio D’Urbervilles–whose “design statement” was to stuff an entire apartment from floor to ceiling with dark purple cottonballs. He called it...

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

The store design offers a higher-end, inspirational feel; however the price points are moderate.

He was ego-free, which was very rare in the design student world. Most design students had lots of ego and very little talent. Jony was the other way around.

It’s all about accelerating the collaborative design process, and involving more people in that process without the need for a special viewer or CAD software.

I am enthusiastic over humanity’s extraordinary and sometimes very timely ingenuity. If you are in a shipwreck and all the boats are gone, a piano top buoyant enough to keep you afloat that comes along...

You see, the penis, it’s so graceless, wouldn’t you agree? When it’s cold and shrivelled up, it looks like W.H. Auden in his old age; when it’s hot, it flops and dangles about in a...

Sometimes the most complex problems can be solved with the simplest solutions.

Eventually everything connects — people, ideas, objects…the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se…I don’t believe in this ‘gifted few’ concept, just in people doing things they are really interested in...

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we’re never above that.

You were created, fashioned and designed in a special form to leave in the world something that did not exist before you were born!

It’s easy to dismiss design – to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it...

I come from a strong scriptural viewpoint, and I find intelligent design lacking, … However, if things are created or designed, that means there’s a creator with a design in mind, and that is reflected...

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

You can’t design one truck to fit everybody. So we’re designing a wide variety of trucks.

The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

I’d call it a design omission.

I’m flexible – I don’t fall in love with my design, … Lots of people want what we are doing and the challenge is to be saleable, but distinct.

For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must feel that the simplicity it displays has been hard won, that it flows from the...

Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You’ll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable.

You would be hard pressed to read this case to say that innovators will have to design their tech differently. I think the court was pretty clear in stating that the technological design is not...

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

In the lobby of every business incubator there needs to be a bathtub, to get the ideas flowing. But to make it funktional, it needs to be used as a fish tank.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.