If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better. – Jefferson Han
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place – that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. – Jean Nouvel
A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it, and I put pictures in it. – John Varvatos
I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It’s called ‘corporate anthropology,’ but personally I’m more comfortable with ‘design research,’ because I’m not an anthropologist by training. – Jan Chipchase
I was a directing student and a production design student at Carnegie Mellon. I went in as a production design student and became a directing student. – John Wells
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. – K. Eric Drexler
If there is a gay uniform, the differences are in how each man coordinates the details: the brand and cut of the jeans, the design of belts and boots, the haircut, the number and size of earrings. – Lance Loud
I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up. – Mary J. Blige
I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‘You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.’ – Kanye West
I’m not too fond of really cool design. I’ve got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I’m quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass. – Kevin McCloud
In this fast-developing world, particularly in the fast-transforming China market, we really need to take this opportunity and offer a modern interpretation of Scandinavian design which fits people’s demands perfectly. – Li Shufu
Received wisdom is that if you spend time up front getting the design right, you avoid costs later. But the longer you spend getting the design right, the more your upfront costs are, and the longer it takes for the software to start earning. – Kent Beck
I wouldn’t know how to design. I couldn’t even if I wanted to, for I can’t draw, and a pair of scissors in my hands becomes a dangerous weapon. – Jean Patou
Hey, I’m a good software engineer, but I’m not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don’t translate to ‘good design sense’. – Linus Torvalds
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions. – John Langdon
We want people to realize you are at a design school, not a land grant college. The way we look says a great deal about who we are. – James Hall
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep. – Le Corbusier
A rational model of software is to design it quickly – the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge. – Kent Beck
I do love DVD and I’ve always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of work into them because there’s so much design involved. And in this one, we thought a lot about it and what could go in. – Jay Roach
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas. – Jil Sander
In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd. – Justin Cartwright
