D Quotes
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“Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibilit y.”
“Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.”
“Design your day thinking that you have limited mental resources, knowing that taking time to replenish them will not only help you be less stressed and better able to resist distractions, but also more creative. We know how different activities affect our physical energy in the world, such as being with family or friends, coordinating a complex event, or taking a walk in nature. In the digital world, what taxes your mental energy? What things do you do that replenish your resources? What kind of rote activity relaxes you? At the end of the day, you want to feel energetic and positive. Don’t end up with your tank of resources on reserve when it’s only early afternoon.”
Source: Attention Span: A Groundbreaking Way to Restore Balance, Happiness and Productivity
“Design your financial future in every respect, and then make a plan to achieve it.”
“Design your income around your dream lifestyle, rather than your lifestyle around your income.”
“Design your life according to your vision. Never let anyone hinder you from progressing every single day.”
“Design your life to minimize reliance on willpower.”
“Design your own signpost for life, then be guided by that sacred path.”
“Design your site so it looks professional”
“Design, if it is to be ecologically responsible and socially responsive, must be revolutionary and radical.”
“Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to -business. Design means being good, not just looking good.”
“Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.”
“Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.”
“Design, vitalized and simplified, will make the comforts of civilized life available to an ever-increasing number of Americans.”
“Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space.”
“Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty”
“Designation without humanity is resignation of humanity.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Designative as destruction, cutting time creatively impulsively, there is no equal in the perspective of art, there is no cleanliness in precision.”
“Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.”
Source: Table Money: A Novel
“Designed for instant impact and encouraging feelings of omnipotence, Twitter is the perfect tool for an impulsive, attention-addicted strongman.”
Source: Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present
“Designed in a 'Pueblo Deco' style, which blends Mission with Art Deco influences, the DCA tower is a composite modeled after real Hollywood landmarks built in the 1920's; possible influences include the Hollywood Tower at 6200 Franklin Avenue, The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel at 7000 Hollywood Boulevard and the Chateau Marmont at 8221 Sunset Boulevard.”
Source: The Disneyland Book of Secrets 2014 - DCA: One Local's Unauthorized, Rapturous and Indispensable Guide to the Happiest Place on Earth
“Designed to be heard precisely in the order laid down, it [Anthology of American Folk Music
compiled by Harry Smith] anticipated the sort of musical collage that would become perhaps the most widely practiced American art form: the personal mixtape of favorite songs.”
Source: Sonata For Jukebox: An Autobiography of My ears
“Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.”
Source: Wired Shut
“Designedly God covers in dark night the issue of futurity.”
“Designer Baby -
You lay on the exam table, warm jelly on your stomach. The nurse's eyes crinkle at the corners. "Are we deciding the sex today?"
Allen grins. "Yes, a boy!"
You groan. "Do we have to choose? Can't we at least leave this to fate?”
Source: One Hundred: Words / Days / Stories
“Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.”
Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader
“Designer of information superhighways need to take the occasional stroll down memory lane.”
“Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.”
“Designer's derive their rewards from 'inner standards of excellence, from the intrinsic satisfaction of their tasks. They are committed to the task, not the job. To their standards, not their boss.' So whereas most people divide their lives between time spent earning money and time spent spending it, designers generally lead a seamless existence in which work and play are synonymous. As Milanese designer Richard Sapper put it: "I never work-all the time."”
“Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.”
“Designers and photographers still want to work with me and I'm grateful for that. I don't know how long I'll carry on - as long as they'll have me.”
“Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.”
“Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place”
“Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.”
“Designers are not users.”
“Designers are optimistic people who are trained to be courageous about the future—and making the future happen. They aren’t always aware of the intricacies of operations and the impacts of the solutions they propose, just like entrepreneurs, but they aren’t afraid of confronting a blank piece of paper (or screen or board) and getting to work making something new.”
“Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.”
“Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next.”
“Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.”
“Designers can show us a better future, can present us with all kinds of new possibilities so that we can decide: Is this what we want? Before any of that can happen, though, the designer must first commit—by taking what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and giving it shape and life.”
“Designers devote their efforts to change.”
“Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.”
Source: The Designful Company: How to build a culture of nonstop innovation
“Designers don't put out the same sweater every year. They just keep creating.”
“Designers from start to finish now in digital media have to think in a much more sort of thoughtful serious and humble way about how design audiences will receive their products.”
“Designers have a responsibility to show the future as they want it to be - or at least as it can be, not just the way an industry wants it to be.”
“Designers have always shown outlandish and exuberant clothes, but that hasnt always translated to the streets.”
“Designers have to keep the body in mind all the time. Think of the girl's undergarments: the bra is always key.”
“Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.”
“Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues.”
Source: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
“Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.”