Top 171 Designing Quotes

I wonder if I would have been less organic of a designer without my background. Maybe I would be more academic about designing, more methodical. I want things to be a certain way, and I’m very precise, but school itself wasn’t that relevant for me.

Language for me narrates the pictures in my mind. When I work on designing livestock equipment I can test run that equipment in my head like 3-D virtual reality. In fact, when I was in college I used to think that everybody was able to do that.

I like to see the world from different levels. Even when I’m making a candle or designing a piece, I like to sit on the floor to polish or make it from scratch. I haven’t seen really tough times, but my husband has come up the hard way. He has even seen poverty.

There’s actually an awful lot of mathematics that goes into designing a railway, keeping it running, making sure everything runs optimally. Every time you need something to be optimal there’s going to be some mathematics at play.

Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it’s designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.

We’re a very active family, and I like everything in its place. I’m all about designing every little space. It will help me in the business of being a mom. Every single day is so crazy with my work that I just need to be able to come home and do that business as efficiently as I try to do my professional work.

I started designing the greenest the most connected home before the iPhone and the iPad.

A dress is an emotional thing to make. You’ve got to fall in love with it and not just with the dress – the whole process of designing it has to be a good experience.

I’m writing kid’s books, I’m doing endurance racing with Le Mans and designing bikes. I’ve also got my own range of cycling clothing.

I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. I’m into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

I do have this one year contract where I’d be designing the interiors for Chevrolet.

I want to do television, film, music and designing. I want to do it all!

I’ve been inspired by Coco Chanel. She broke all the rules of her time when she was designing. She pretty much revolutionized the way that women dressed at the time, and in doing that, she modernized the way they looked because they could move more freely in their clothes.

Value Proposition Design is a ‘must have’ for anyone creating a new venture. It captures the core issues around understanding and finding customer problems and designing and validating potential solutions.

I didn’t design schools for poor kids. I’m designing schools to be world-class.

I think pattern makers are some of the most underrated, undervalued people in fashion. They’re the people who are sometimes the geniuses in designing clothing.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

When Billy Ray and I first got married, we lived in an A-frame house in Kentucky, and I didn’t even know you could get drapes made – I used to get drapes from Dillard’s. Once I hired a designer to help decorate that house was when I discovered a passion for designing.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I’m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

Flip or Flop’ was a house show based on designing houses for the masses – they were always designed so that any person could walk in and like it and picture themselves living in it.

Designing bridal is perfect for me, because black is my least favorite color, if you could call it a color.

While designing, sewing and cutting patterns for clients, my mother was always telling me to make sure the upper part of the body was balanced with the lower part, an A-line skirt to minimize hips or shoulder pads if a client was smaller on top. I was training my eye to create balance.

I think death is a crucial element when designing games around the theme of the satisfaction of overcoming overwhelming odds.

My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman’s life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.

There are just huge benefits to come from designing for the ears in our health care.

I love designing, and I still do it.

I always have a moment when I know I’m designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it’s always been floating up there, but it’s kind of the last one. That’s always probably the hardest one for me.

Designing is so easy – it’s the business that is hard. That’s why you really have to respect Ralph Lauren – look at what he’s done. Anybody who can sustain themselves should be applauded.

My love for interior designing has always been there.

The idea of designing something that is like something else is incredibly uninteresting and boring.

Ergonomics is about designing for failure modes and extremes: how things break under repetition, stress or other limits. And the goal of ergonomic designis to create an alignment between the user’s limits, the thing you’re designing, and how people will ideally use that thing.

I don’t have a background in design, so I think it’s always about what I see in the world and what inspires me. So yes, I am designing for myself. I’m going through this whole evolution, which is a process of growing up and going from modeling to styling to designing.

My job is designing shoes. It’s work that happens behind the scenes, as they say, and that suits me just fine because in general I am a shy person. But sometimes I have these extroverted outbursts.

We’re designing environments that make us crazy. And it’s not just our quality of life which suffers. It’s our health, our social behavior, and our productivity as well.

I’ve got a furniture range with my wife, and I want to get into designing hotels and restaurants as well. We’ve got a big studio in Victoria and a showroom in Belgravia. I’ve always been interested in architecture.

Not just cricket, we are doing clothing for football, hockey etc. It’s basic stuff, but good designing is what I am looking to do.

Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do.

No more top-down politics with Westminster dictating what’s right for every community. We must all be partners in designing a better future for our country.

When I was young, for some reason, I thought a postman’s job was quite cool, and once, I even contemplated becoming a lawyer. Finally, I decided to dabble in something creative like fashion designing or photography. Till I joined college, I had no clue that one day, I will face the camera.

When I’m designing, I’m thinking about what it would be like to wear that piece.

I feel like my art is very eclectic. I have taken my favorite things – be that costume designing, fashion sense, music and video editing – and I threw them all into one big clump. And that’s what I do.

Designing a car involves a lot of technical know-how as opposed to designing clothes.

My relationship with M&S continues to be an exciting journey, from modelling to designing my online range.

There’s no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which must be used.

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

I’m personally not terribly interested in designing wholesome characters, so I don’t have many variations to offer.

Does anyone recall hippies designing things for Generation X? Does anyone recall the elegance of that? How design was about making things simpler?

To me, this is the perfect marriage. There’s no friction. There’s just, we have what they need, they have what we need. And so IBM is in the process, with our help, of designing many different apps for many different verticals.

I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me – my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don’t like designing things for myself.

I don’t want to find myself designing for the press.

Often, what makes my job so exciting is designing for the mother whose dream has been to wear one of my hats at her child’s wedding. I feel as responsible for making her feel like a million dollars as I do for somebody in the public eye.

Film will always be my main focus, but designing and publishing my own work is something I will also always do.

At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they’re designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler.

You know what I really want to get into? I’m really artistic, so I really want to get into fashion designing and fashion styling. That’s, like, something I’m really, really interested in.

I’d always been acutely sensitive to my surroundings – and aware that I could make them rather than just observe them. So I began by designing interiors for myself, for friends, for clients – I just felt that I’d discovered my element, and those who really looked at what I was doing liked it – and the rest followed.

Going back to the technical track of my life, note that I have been designing electronic products, both of the consumer and defense electronics variety, since Pluto was a pup. Many of these products broke new ground… creativity at work!

I do like designing clothes that are – not exactly lofty but intellectual in their sexiness.

My general premise is not about selling clothes. If that’s your end goal, then all of a sudden everything looks the same, you know – you start designing by numbers.

I like painting, I think it’s relaxing. I also like designing; I don’t really like the manual labor, to be honest.

It is sad that so many designers don’t know how to make. CAD software can make a bad design look palatable! It is sad that four years can be spent on a 3D design course without making anything! People who are great at designing and making have a great advantage.

Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design – Gecko’s homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie’s ‘android’ C-3PO.

There’s nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that’s existing and introducing it in a way that hasn’t been done.

The major change was going from ‘Black and White’ to ‘Fable,’ because I was no longer programming, and I had spent most of my time designing through programming, and only working with people I knew well.

With my job, I am designing spaces for families on a weekly basis, and that is where I get my creative outlet.

I have worn saris a lot over the years, so designing them was like a natural progression.

When I was designing my clothing line, I would find a print that I love and then decide what to make with it.

I simply do the things that inspire me, be that snowboarding, designing clothing, or dancing.

I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.

What we found while making Milo, is that part of the skill of designing this whole new experience is in making people comfortable with the fact that they can be seen.

Do I miss shoes? I miss the designing, but I don’t miss the fashion industry. Those people eat their children.

I think the hardest thing is to design for plus-size women. I enjoyed designing for straight-size because there’s no limits. They can basically wear anything, and that’s where I was able to have creative freedom with it.

The future lies in designing and selling computers that people don’t realize are computers at all.

In the end, it’s clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself.

Because my friends and family are real people, and they wear all sizes, I couldn’t imagine designing something that my loved ones could not wear.

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

To me, ‘design thinking’ is another way of saying empathize with the customer. It’s consideration for the person you’re designing for.

I think ultimately I make people happy: Whether I’m doing the stage show, giving somebody a makeover, or designing clothing, the end goal is to make people smile.

Designing my shoes, I’m thinking timeless. Not trendy.

I love white shirts because they feel like a security blanket. You can wear them with anything. It’s the person and the way that they wear it that makes it different. I have been designing white shirts forever, but I don’t get tired of it.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn’t go beyond that aspiration at that point.

When I was growing up as a little girl and as a teenager, I loved designing and making dogs’ clothes and wanting to be a fashion designer. I took art and ceramics. I loved dance.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare’s plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren’t represented in sports performance. I felt that men were dressed really well both technically and visually, and women were almost like an afterthought.

When designing algorithms as a business owner, your incentive is your profit, something for your business, it’s not an incentive to maximise something for the individual.

Designing and developing anything of consequence is incredibly challenging.

When you have the blue screen, you’ve got another set of eyes, eight months down the track, designing what you should have been designing on stage with the actor.

It’s a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.

Civil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow’s autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.

Growing up, I had trouble finding clothes because I was curvy, and so I would end up designing my own things.

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems.

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It’s about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth – intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It’s actually a beautiful feeling.

Social innovation thrives on collaboration; on doing things with others, rather than just to them or for them: hence the great interest in new ways of using the web to ‘crowdsource’ ideas, or the many experiments involving users in designing services.

My biggest word of advice that I could give to people that are dealing with a home renovation or decoration is to not think about design as it’s been presented to you before. I think everybody needs to start designing based on the moments they imagine having in their home and that is what has guided me as a decorator.

I was always interested in fabric, clothes and designing. Maybe I would have been a designer by profession if I didn’t start acting.

When you’re designing a monster, there’s kind of no rules.

I was the Playmate editor for ‘Playboy’ for two years. I produced two years’ worth of centerfolds. I did everything on that, from picking the girls to designing the sets to picking the wardrobe, coming up with themes, assigning the photographer, down to editing the photos and approving the retouching.

I came from product design originally – I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 – so I’m used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects.

Designing comes easy and quickly to me. I don’t need to spend hours to complete an X amount of work for me. I feel designing is in me.

I’m designing for women between the ages of 20 and 40.

Well, for me, it’s never just been fashion designing. It’s the creative challenge that keeps me going be it for my label, styling projects or interior designing.

I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I’ve discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

We know the cyclones will come because we are in the wind sector. It cannot be consistent high wind; sometimes, it can be low wind. We are designing our turbines assuming that one day even a cyclone will come.

Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine’s beauty and Renee’s frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were.

In designing my bridal collections, I love mixing luxe fabrics, which give the most beautiful texture and dimension to my creations.

When I wake up, I think, ‘What can I do to help others?’ I think we all owe the world something. That’s the way I am when I’m designing a product.

It’s something I am very passionate about, designing clothes and being creative and fashion-forward.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

And I think that still is true of this business – which is basically research and development – that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.

When designing a workout program for high level performers, factors such as body type, previous training experience, and even pain tolerance come into play.

Designing was an effortless exercise and something I always enjoyed.

Having made a real 3D movie, you realize that, right from the production design, you’re designing sets that complement the 3D. You’re designing interactive elements, like rain or smoke – all this particulate matter in the air enhances the 3D. But if you’re shooting in 2D, you don’t know about that.

Luckily, I went to school at CalArts, and then ended up here at Disney, starting in the Animation Building and working my way up. I started as an animator, and then did character designing and storyboarding, and eventually, directing.

Even today, I am still very child-like while designing. It’s a bit like Christmas – each of your designs you create is like unravelling your presents.

Whoever’s designing for plus-size doesn’t get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can’t just take a size 8 and make it larger.

When I design, I always design around denim. I think of designing as a lifestyle. I design for that career oriented girl who will be sitting at an office all day long, but is still going out and being social at night.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn’t have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

Designing a collection with Aeropostale was completely surreal.

I’m fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.

I’ve been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother’s a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

I always feel like a woman designing for a woman. I know what you want to accentuate and what you want to hide.

What makes us unique is that we actually build things. Unlike most hotel companies who just manage and have no experience building, designing, and developing a hotel, we started off on the opposite track. We started off building. We’re construction guys first and foremost.

I don’t listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

In designing shoes for myself; I’m not thinking of a specific person or catwalk. I’m just not thinking of clothes at all. I’m always thinking of a naked woman, actually.

In many respects, designing heirloom products means saying no to designing consumer crap that you know will not last very long.

I was probably born with some designing abilities.

If you’re designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer’s not going to take notice.

When I first started designing, all women were dressed like men, and I said, ‘Hey, guys, let’s be women, put the two together – it’s not either/or. Let’s celebrate our bodies. Our bodies are different.’

I described the CEO job as knowing what to do and getting the company to do what you want. Designing a proper company culture will help you get your company to do what you want in certain important areas for a very long time.

I’m interested in designing for posterity.

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it’s them I’m designing for.

We can’t think in terms of designing products that we throw over the wall to customers, but instead, we need to design products that are upgradable and maintainable and that can be mined for materials and components that can be reused.

Homes are always a reflection of the people in them, my whole job is to understand the psychology of the family I am designing for, the world of design they’d like to live within, be happy and comfortable in.

I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.

The Federal Reserve is not charged with designing or evaluating proposals for housing finance reform. But we are responsible for regulating and supervising banking institutions to ensure their safety and soundness, and more broadly for the stability of the financial system.

Farmers and agricultural authorities must take account of climate change and the prospect of increased rainfall in designing strategies to mitigate the effects of nutrient pollution.

As far as documentaries, ‘Man on Wire,’ ‘Atomic Cafe,’ ‘Waltz With Bashir,’ and ‘Thin Blue Line’ all offered me different perspectives to consider as we were designing the structure and approach to ‘Tower.’

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

I’m into fashion and designing clothes and stuff.

Designing Woman was written for the screen.

When designing your product, go beyond consumers’ current knowledge base. Design, test, and dig deeper than almost any client would pay you to do.

I liked the challenge of designing and building things, figuring out how something works and how to make it better or apply it in a different way.

Music is my greatest love. It is also my first love. But I love a lot of things, including painting, drawing, writing, designing, and more.

Since I was 5, I was bitten by the bug of designing. It was all around me in my home.

I do love the clothes on ‘Mad Men’ because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They’ll call and tell me, ‘It will only take an hour,’ and I’m like, ‘I will try on the whole truck!’

Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration. The fresh piece of paper on the drawing board is as blank as the newly stretched piece of canvas.

I watch a TV show called ‘Shark Tank.’ It’s one of my favorite TV shows. It’s basically self-made millionaires who have either come up with their own business or clothing… I came up with the idea of designing clothes.

I moved out to Los Angeles with the idea of becoming a director, which thousands, if not tens and hundreds of thousands, of people do, every year. It’s a very competitive field, of course. I immediately got swept away into the visual side of things, starting with visual effects, and then designing.

I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.

If I was a fashion designer just following trends or designing for celebrities, I would not be fulfilled.

After working on redesigning so many homes and using whatever furniture I could find, I am so excited to be designing my own collection of home furnishings that are stylish at a great price.

I grew up with very elegant parents; their black and white photographs and style are still a huge source of inspiration in designing my collections.

The same time I’m designing my collection, I’m also designing my store. It has to have brand awareness, an identity. I’m also designing the racks and the hangers, and juggling a lot of things.

I have a cell phone that doesn’t behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don’t start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff.

I personally – if I were designing the tax code – would have a tax code in which Mitt Romney paid more than 13 percent, given what I know about the kind of investments he made money from.

I’ve always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

Designing and creating dance clothes has taken my love for dancewear to a whole other level, melding the creative process with my daily fashion and allowing me to bring my most dreamed-about ballet styles to life.

It’s time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes.

I try to be a positive person, but I’m also always looking and wondering, ‘Maybe this could be done differently.’ As soon as your mind is in a critical mode, you’re halfway through designing; as soon as you start thinking about whether something could be better, you’re already halfway through a solution.

I do love a bit of fashion. I grew up around a lot of it as my mum and dad had clothing stores so my mum was always designing a lot, and I definitely had that as an influence.

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.

I’m really into vintage clothes. So I’ve been… vintage shopping and kind of adding and reconstructing things and just doing a little bit of designing.

I’m a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

My kids are my energy. They have a very strong sense of design in them already at this age and they love to see my work, they love to sit with me and see all the houses that I am designing.

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

I always find the more you can draw on real life characters, people, situations, it works better. Certainly for designing a character, I prefer to draw on real people rather than other guys I’ve seen in movies, rather than ‘here’s my version of Clint Eastwood’ or whoever.

I’ve been working with contractors designing and building a house on a nonstop basis since 2005. I learned about all these systems of audio, construction, electricity, energy, water systems.

I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There’s some attention to be paid to that, but I don’t think it’s everything.