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It's time for part 2 of my mega design quote thread!
Read on for 20 more quotes about design. This time with pictures...
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(Previous thread included below in case you missed it) https://twitter.com/ben_strak/status/1323233927901908994
Read on for 20 more quotes about design. This time with pictures...
THREAD 1/20
(Previous thread included below in case you missed it) https://twitter.com/ben_strak/status/1323233927901908994
“We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”
– Albert Einstein
– Albert Einstein
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself.”
– Don Norman
– Don Norman
"the reality is that we’re always reacting to something, because everything has been built. We’re not in a world where we’re starting from scratch and I think what tends to happen is most people think of design, or the world around us, as a blank sheet of paper”
@acarrolldesign
@acarrolldesign
“The mind is like an umbrella, it’s most useful when open.”
– Walter Gropius
– Walter Gropius
“Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.”
– Victor Papanek
– Victor Papanek
“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
– Joe Sparano
– Joe Sparano
“Design is one of the few disciplines that is a science as well as an art. Effective, meaningful design requires intellectual, rational rigor along with the ability to elicit emotions and beliefs."
– @debbiemillman
– @debbiemillman
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.”
– Dieter Rams
– Dieter Rams
“…anyone who uses a properly designed object feels the presence of an artist who has worked for him, bettering his living conditions and encouraging him to develop his taste and sense of beauty.”
– Bruno Munari
– Bruno Munari
“Designers should become what, in biology, is referred to as a mutagen–an agent that produces mutations in the artificial world. Interaction among disciplines and people is crucial.”
– Carlo Ratti
– Carlo Ratti
"Just make people better at something they want to be better at."
– Kathy Sierra
– Kathy Sierra
“Most breakthroughs occur when conventional wisdom from one field is combined with a smidgen of insight from some unlikely place.
It is often that small piece of information that breaks a logjam and points to entirely new directions.”
– Greg Satell @Digitaltonto
It is often that small piece of information that breaks a logjam and points to entirely new directions.”
– Greg Satell @Digitaltonto
"Designing a product is designing a relationship.”
– Steve Rogers
– Steve Rogers
“It’s my job to produce tools for living. The designer accomplishes this as an observer, a catalyst, and above all, a survivor.”
– Sarah Little Turnbull
– Sarah Little Turnbull
“The details are not the details. They are the design.”
– Charles & Ray Eames
– Charles & Ray Eames
“Function is putting a piece of wood down and sitting on it. Performance is sitting on something that makes your back align correctly, and accommodates your movements. If it is done to a level of perfection, then it becomes an art form.”
– Richard Saul Wurman
– Richard Saul Wurman
“The nuance of how the problem is described transforms what kinds of solutions you are likely to consider, which means that there is a craft to defining problems that’s as important as defining solutions.”
@berkun
@berkun
"…when I put visual work out there... that is interesting, unusual, intriguing... that maybe opens up that sense of enquiry in the mind – that I’m seeding the imagination of the populace. And you just never know who is going to take something from that..."
— Marian Bantjes
— Marian Bantjes
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