Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose. Charles Eames Everything is designed.

. Few things are designed well. Brian Reed There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. Massimo Vignelli People ignore design that ignores people. Frank Chimero Ive always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy, but rather, that of a monarchy. Thomas Vasquez Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. Joe Sparano Every designers dirty little secret is that they copy other designers work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration. Aaron Russell The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong. Marty Neumeier Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal experiences. Its messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure. The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas. Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed benefit. Scott Stevenson Design is where science and art break even. Robin Mathew Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere. Mieke Gerritzen

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. Bruno Munari Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. Robert L. Peters Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and public. Valerie Pettis Design should never say, Look at me. It should always say, Look at this. David Craib Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror. Juan-Carlos Fernndez Dont design for everyone. Its impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy. Leisa Reichelt Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking. Ellen Lupton The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture. Jeff Smith Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. Edward Tufte Design is intelligence made visible. Alina Wheeler Math is easy; design is hard. Jeffrey Veen Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order. Victor Papanek

Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks. Suleiman Leadbitter Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, its decoration. Jeffrey Zeldman People think that design is styling. Design is not style. Its not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didnt know it was missing. Paola Antonelli Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. Tate Linden Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking. Chris Pullman Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Fabien Barral Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them. Matt Beale Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Steve Jobs Im convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about. Carrie Phillips Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel. Don Norman Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins. Drew Davies

Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist. Noreen Morioka Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. Robert L. Peters Its art if cant be explained. Its fashion if no one asks for an explanation. Its design if it doesnt need explanation. Wouter Stokkel You cant do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously. Wim Crouwel I love the comment, You must love designing for a living. At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears. Andrew Lewis The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to tidy up the mess, as opposed to understanding its a day one issue and part of everything. Tom Peters Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work. Hans Hger Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking. Milton Glaser I find modernist design boring, but it so much faster! Christine Suewon Lee A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

 Sir Alec Issigonis A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is. Leo Frankowski For me, design is like choosing what Im going to wear for the day - only much more complicated and not really the same at all. Robynne Raye Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social responsibility. Good design allows form to complement performance. The way things look is not irrelevant to the way things work: how they work is how they should look. Thomas F. Schutte Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right, both parties are happy in the end. Colin Wright Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work. Noreen Morioka I would show my my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: Thats nice dear. And then she would say, Did you write it? or Did you do the drawing? or Did you take the pictures? Id always answer no, then I realized the problem. My answer was then, I made this happen. Its called design. Brian Webb Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service. Dan Brown Technology over technique produces emotionless design. Daniel Mall

I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design. Mark Boulton A design isnt finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel/p> The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. Massimo Vignelli If design isnt profitable, then its art. Henrik Fiskar Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasnt theirs. Frank Chimero A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words. Mandy Brown Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. David Carson The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. Scott Hanselman Practice safe design: Use a concept. Petrula Vrontikis Create your own visual style let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. Orson Welles Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. Raymond Loewy Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

 Eliel Saarinen Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form. David Lewis A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint Exupry Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose. Chris Bangle Its really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people dont know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. Erik Adigard To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise its just planning. Ayse Birsel Ivan Chermayeff No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. Adrian Forty Many things difficult to design prove easy to perform. Samuel Johnson The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd as to refer to the latter as a poet. Douglas Martin Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all. Everyone makes design

decisions all the time without realizing itlike Molieres M. Jourdain who discovered he had been speaking prose all his lifeand good design is simply the result of making these decisions consciously, at the right stage, and in consultation with others as the need arises. Douglas Martin Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead. Marty Neumeier The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. Victor Papanek Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple. Tim Parsey The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. He new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. Paul Rand Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun, and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a process. Design is the foundation of all the arts. Paul Rand Designing a product is designing a relationship. Steve Rogers It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audiences role in it will be. Edwin Schlossberg Good design is good business. Thomas J. Watson Jr. Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. Thomas J. Watson Jr.

designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches its audience rather than fucks them in the head. Jon Wozencraft Design is in everything we make, but its also between those things. Its a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy. Erik Adigard I never design a building before Ive seen the site and met the people who will be using it. Frank Lloyd Wright The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. Richard Saul WurmanLuck is the residue of design. Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950 To dismiss front-end design as mere icing is to jeopardize the success of any site. Curt Cloninger, 2001 Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution. Ivan Chermayeff To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master. Milton Glaser Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. Paul Rand, 1997 Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011) In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), BusinessWeek, May 25 1

This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in an interesting hole I find myself in fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt tags: intelligent-design 115 people liked it like

If god meant for people to talk into cellphones, he would've put our mouths on the side of our heads. Devon Sampson tags: funny, intelligent-design 78 people liked it like

If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? Milton Berle tags: evolution, intelligent-design, motherhood 65 people liked it like

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. Isaac Newton tags: id, intelligent-design, religion, religion-and-science, science, science-and-religion 34 people liked it like

DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created. Bill Gates, The Road Ahead

tags: biology, dna, id, information, intelligent-design, science 22 people liked it like

...the scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light of the Scripture. Nature says the rock is billions of years old, but the book says different, so even though men wrote the book, and God made the rock and God gave us minds that have found ways to tell how old it is, we still choose to believe the Scripture. Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco tags: intelligent-design, religion, willful-ignorance 20 people liked it like

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. Isaac Newton, The Principia: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy tags: god, id, intelligent-design, religion, religion-and-science, science, science-and-religion, theism 15 people liked it like

There is no indisputable proof for the big bang," said Hollus. "And there is none for evolution. And yet you accept those. Why hold the question of whether there is a creator to a higher standard? Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God tags: atheism, big-bang, darwinism, double-standards, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, materialism, naturalism, religious-science-fiction, science, theism, theistic-sciencefiction 14 people liked it like

Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies, all of which are in one universe among perhaps an infinite number of universes all nestled within a grand cosmic multiverse, is provincially insular and anthropocentrically blinkered. Which is more likely? That the universe was designed just for us, or that we see the universe as having been designed just for us? Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design tags: cosmos, creation, darwinism, galaxies, intelligent-design, multiverse, science, species, universe 12 people liked it like

We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence Voltaire tags: humanism, intelligent-design 12 people liked it like

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design. Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God tags: anthropic-principle, chance, coincidenc-e, fine-tuning, id, intelligent-design, naturalism, religiousscience-fiction, science, theism, theistic-science-fiction 8 people liked it like

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change any one of them and the consequences would be lethal. Fred Hoyle, the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if "a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics".

To see the problem, imagine playing God with the cosmos. Before you is a designer machine that lets you tinker with the basics of physics. Twiddle this knob and you make all electrons a bit lighter, twiddle that one and you make gravity a bit stronger, and so on. It happens that you need to set thirtysomething knobs to fully describe the world about us. The crucial point is that some of those metaphorical knobs must be tuned very precisely, or the universe would be sterile.

Example: neutrons are just a tad heavier than protons. If it were the other way around, atoms couldn't exist, because all the protons in the universe would have decayed into neutrons shortly after the big bang. No protons, then no atomic nucleuses and no atoms. No atoms, no chemistry, no life. Like Baby Bear's porridge in the story of Goldilocks, the universe seems to be just right for life. Paul Davies tags: anthropic-principle, chance, coincidence, fine-tuning, fred-hoyle, id, intelligent-design, science, serendipity, theism 8 people liked it like

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes. Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution tags: biology, chance, darwinism, evolution, id, intelligent-design, luck, macro-evolution, macroevolution, mutation, naturalism, science, serendipity 7 people liked it like

The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itselfnot from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were designed by an intelligent agent is a humdrum process that requires no new principles of logic or science. It comes simply from the hard work that biochemistry has done over the past forty years, combined with consideration of the way in which we reach conclusions of design every day. Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution tags: biochemistry, biology, id, intelligent-design, science 6 people liked it like

I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. Michael Crichton

tags: 9-11, bisphenol-a, bpa, consensus, darwinism, evolution, excitotoxins, fluoride, global-warming, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, majority, majority-view, man-made-globalwarming, manmade-global-warming, minority, minority-view, monosodium-glutamate, msg, science, scientific-discovery, scientific-inquiry, scientific-method, scientific-process, scientific-research, scientificrevolution, scientific-theory, september-11-attacks 5 people liked it like

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity," one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution. Michael Shermer tags: evolution, god, intelligent-design, religion, science 5 people liked it like

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of ones place in the cosmos, a relationship to that which extends beyond oneself. . . . Does scientific explanation of the world diminish its spiritual beauty? I think not. Science and spirituality are complementary, not conflicting; additive, not detractive. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades. (158-159) Michael Shermer, Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design tags: creationism, darwinism, evolution, intelligent-design, science, spirituality, worldview 5 people liked it like

The fundamental claim of intelligent design is straightforward and easily intelligible: namely, there are natural systems that cannot be adequately explained in terms of undirected natural forces and that exhibit features which in any other circumstance we would attribute to intelligence. William A. Dembski, The Design Revolution: Answering the Toughest Questions about Intelligent Design tags: biology, intelligent-design, science 5 people liked it like

Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - science, philosophy, religion, or what? In a sense it hardly matters. By far the most important question is not what category we place it in, but whether a conclusion is true. A true philosophical or religious conclusion is no less true than a true scientific one. Although universities might divide their faculty and courses into academic categories, reality is not obliged to respect such boundaries.

 Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism tags: biology, id, intelligent-design, reality, science 4 people liked it like

Teaching students the evidence for and against Darwinism is not the same as teaching intelligent design. The U.S. Congress has officially endorsed teaching students 'the full range of scientific views' about Darwinian evolution. Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design tags: biology, darwinism, evolution, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, science, scientific-inquiry 4 people liked it like

You might think that, by now, people would have become accustomed to the idea of natural catastrophes. We live on a planet that is still cooling and which has fissures and faults in its crust; this much is accepted even by those who think that the globe is only six thousand years old, as well as by those who believe that the earth was "designed" to be this way. Even in such a case, it is to be expected that earthquakes will occur and that, if they occur under the seabed, tidal waves will occur also. Yet two sorts of error are still absolutely commonplace. The first of these is the idiotic belief that seismic events are somehow "timed" to express the will of God. Thus, reasoning back from the effect, people will seriously attempt to guess what sin or which profanity led to the verdict of the tectonic plates. The second error, common even among humanists, is to borrow the same fallacy for satirical purposes and to employ it to disprove a benign deity. Christopher Hitchens tags: 2004, 2004-earthquake-and-tsunami, 2005, atheism, earth, earthquakes, humanism, intelligentdesign, natural-disasters, plate-tectonics, religion, theodicy, tsunamis, young-earth-creationism 4 people liked it like

No one disputes that seeming order can out of the application of simple rules. But who wrote the rules? Robert J. Sawyer, Calculating God tags: id, intelligent-design, naturalism, religious-science-fiction, science, theism, theistic-science-fiction 4 people liked it like There's no obvious reason to assume that the very same rare properties that allow for our existence would also provide the best overall setting to make discoveries about the world around us. We don't

think this is merely coincidental. It cries out for another explanation, an explanation that... points to purpose and intelligent design in the cosmos. Guillermo Gonzalez, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery tags: astronomy, biology, cosmology, id, intelligent-design, physics, science 3 people liked it like

The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because they treat with contempt the very people on whom they depend the most: American taxpayers. The outcome of this scientific revolution will be decided by young people who have the courage to question dogmatism and follow the evidence wherever it leads. Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design tags: biology, darwinism, evolution, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, science, scientific-inquiry, scientific-revolution 3 people liked it like

If Darwinists are opposed to mentioning scientific problems with their view, you would think they would be even more opposed to mentioning intelligent design. Yet Darwinists have been discussing ID in public school science classes for years... Biology textbooks have been mentioning intelligent design since the late 1990sbut only to misrepresent and disparage it. Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design tags: biology, darwinism, evolution, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, science, scientific-inquiry 3 people liked it like

The most essential prediction of Darwinism is that, given an astronomical number of chances, unintelligent processes can make seemingly-designed systems, ones of the complexity of those found in the cell. ID specifically denies this, predicting that in the absence of intelligent input no such systems would develop. So Darwinism and ID make clear, opposite predictions of what we should find when we examine genetic results from a stupendous number of organisms that are under relentless pressure from natural selection. The recent genetic results are a stringent test. The results: 1) Darwinisms prediction is falsified; 2) Designs prediction is confirmed. Michael J. Behe tags: biology, chance, darwinism, evolution, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, natural-selection, naturalism, predictions, science 3 people liked it like

Ewww... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to a cretinous public! No need to address their concerns or respond to their arguments. They are Not Science. They are poopy-heads. There. I just saved you the trouble of reading 90 percent of the responses to the ID position... This is how losers act just before they lose: arrogant, self-satisfied, too important to be bothered with substantive refutation, and disdainful of their own faults... The only remaining question is whether Darwinism will exit gracefully, or whether it will go down biting, screaming, censoring, and denouncing to the bitter end. Tech Central Station contributor Douglas Kern, 2005 Jonathan Wells, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism And Intelligent Design tags: biology, darwinism, douglas-kern, evolution, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, neo-darwinism, neodarwinism, science, scientific-revolution 3 people liked it like

I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. Michael Crichton tags: 9-11, bisphenol-a, bpa, consensus, darwinism, evolution, excitotoxins, fluoride, global-warming, id, intelligent-design, macro-evolution, macroevolution, majority, majority-view, man-made-globalwarming, manmade-global-warming, minority, minority-view, monosodium-glutamate, msg, science, scientific-discovery, scientific-inquiry, scientific-method, scientific-process, scientific-research, scientificrevolution, scientific-theory, september-11-attacks 3 people liked it like

Whenever explaining an event, we must choose from three competing modes of explanation. These are regularity, chance, and design... To attribute an event to design is to say that it cannot reasonably be referred to either regularity or chance. William A. Dembski, The Design Inference: Eliminating Chance Through Small Probabilities tags: biology, id, intelligent-design, science 3 people liked it like

When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.