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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.
- Giorgio Armani

I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.
- Don Bluth

Designers shouldn't design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
- Ralph Caplan

After the Great Depression and after public urging, a nationwide public competition was held to determine a design for a memorial that would honor President Thomas Jefferson's bold vision for westward expansion for America.
- Russ Carnahan

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.
- Jim Rohn

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
- Genevieve Gorder

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.
- Martin Fleischmann

When Henry Ford decided to produce his famous V-8 motor, he chose to biuld an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was placed on paper, but the engineers agreed, to a man, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder engine-block in one piece.

Ford replied,''Produce it anyway.
- Henry Ford

I design for the woman who loves being a woman.
- Diane Von Furstenberg

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
- David Hockney

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts.
- Betsey Johnson

...we shall connect the points, draw the line, and you and I shall form that unique design for which I yearn. If they do this kind of thing to me every morning, they will get me trained and I shall become quite wooden.
- Vladimir Nabokov

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format.
- Donald Norman

Principles of design:
1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head.
2. Simplify the structure of tasks.
3. Make things visible: bridge gulfs between Execution and Evaluation.
4. Get the mappings right.
5. Exploit the power of constraints.
6. Design for error.
7. When all else fails, standardize.
- Donald A Norman

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