Entries from Kelake tagged with 'Quotes'
Sharing
... "when work is created but then locked up in a silo so that no one else can do anything but look at it passively, it doesn't reach its full potential." It's been interesting for me to experience just how...
The hope of good design
The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believe … Contrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way. -Alexander Girard...
Relevance
"And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye; and seest not the beam that is in thy own eye?" - Matthew Chapter 7, Verse 3 I'm not one for quoting the Bible but I happened upon...
Flaubert Quote
Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work. - Gustave Flaubert...
Discipline
The film Amadeus dramatizes and romanticizes the divine origins of creative genius. Antonio Salieri, representing the talented hack, is cursed to live in the time of Mozart, the gifted and undisciplined genius who writes as though touched by the hand...
On reading books
"Some books are to be tasted," he wrote, "others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some...
Complex systems
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning...
Balance
Balance is beautiful. - Miyoko Ohno, Japanese bridge designer...
Books and trust quote
Can no longer read books, even great ones, in cramped small paperback editions. Whitespace confers credibility; its lack inspires mistrust. - Zeldman...
Idea Maxim
Good ideas do not need lots of lies told about them in order to gain public acceptance. - Daniel Davis...
Order
Order tends to reduce complexity and requires elimination of details that do not fit the principles determining the order - Arnheim...
Lucian on redesigns
Iterative design is better than massive redesign, but management finds it less impressive and might fire you. - Lucian...
Power of Design
Your products run for election every day and good design is critical to winning the campaign.—Procter & Gamble CEO A.G. Lafley...
6 laws of simplicity
From John Maeda's original 16 (-3) laws of simplicity come my 6 favourite: A complex system of many functions can be simplified by carefully grouping related functions. The positive emotional response derived from a simplicity experience has less to do...
Design is like jazz
Design is often like playing jazz. Lay down a structuring rhythm, find a snappy theme, and then improvise. Keith Dytham architecture...
User illusion
My main complaint (about modern interfaces) is that metaphor is a poor metaphor for what needs to be done. At PARC we coined the phrase ‘user illusion’ to describe what we were about when designing user interfaces. There are clear...
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