Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
Jef Raskin

One of the best animated films I've seen come out of Disney was the Tarzan movie. I wasn't crazy about the story or the design on Tarzan's face, but the traditional animation was spectacular.
Ralph Bakshi

Organisms by their design are not made to adapt too far.
Kevin Kelly

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Walter Gropius

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
David McFadden

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
Marc Newson

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.
Calvin Klein

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence

Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Donald Norman

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.
Charles Eames

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.
Debi Thomas

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.
Marc Newson

So if I want to buy a light in a shop and I don't find a light that I like, I think to myself what would I like? What would I like to buy? Then I started to imagine and design it for myself a lot of the time.
Marc Newson

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.
Dennis Muren

So that ideas of sort of relaxed symmetry have been something for years that I have been concerned with because I think that symmetry is a neutral shape as opposed to a form of design.
Robert Rauschenberg

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
Genevieve Gorder

Sometimes, you start with the drawing and then the gag comes to you in the middle of it. That is when you start working on the solution of the gag, which is composition, placing, equilibrium, and character design.
Sergio Aragones

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.
Kevin Kelly

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.
Corin Nemec