Read quote“The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.”
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About Design
The shaping of objects, systems, environments, and experiences for human purposes.
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Words on Design
Read quote“My invention relates to the transmission and reception of colored pictures or images by wire or Wireless.”
Read quote“One can create architecture simply by pursuing light.”
Read quote“It was the year I invented shorts. I found sweat-sodden cricket flannels were weighing me down, so my tailor ran up some prototype shorts.”
Read quote“I think the woodcraft and smooth lines of Scandinavian design have influenced me greatly.”
Read quote“This invention relates to instruments, such as aneroids, and operating means therefor.”
Read quote“Si en la base de la construcción hay emoción o razonamiento, nos debe dar igual: nuestro único objetivo es construir.”
Read quote“I have been working on the sarimanok style. This is a design I am trying to improve, revitalize.”
Read quote“Once more I repeat that editing is the creative force of filmic reality, and that nature provides only the raw material with which it works.”
Read quote“In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.”
Read quote“La forme est un message en soi, elle parle d'elle-même.”
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Quote Stories about Design
When the Courtyard Kept Time
Sela repaired the courtyard clock to serve the night workers who passed beneath it. Then its cheerful chimes woke the people sleeping nearby. To make time welcoming to everyone, she had to stop measuring it alone.
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When Desks Learned to Bend
Nera’s first folding desk collapsed under the weight of a single book. Hiding the failure would be easy; inviting others to inspect it would be harder—and far more useful.
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A Map Woven in Blue
Ilya’s patchwork bench covers began with lost gloves and ended as a map everyone could help complete.
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