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.
I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works but each one launches another. Every constraint even dullness frees up a new design.
User-centered design means understanding what your users need how they think and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
If I designed a computer with 200 chips I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair but simply an integral part of the stuff of life necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
Everyone wants an iPhone but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product it's an understanding of human nature.
When we were in the design studio I always was pretending like I was in a closet asking my friend before I step out into the world what do I look like? And everybody wants that honest friend before they go and go to dinner or go to an event.
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
I don't particularly follow the Bauhaus school of design where you make everything into a black box - simplify it.
When you say 'design ' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks whereas for me design is pretty much everything.
I became an art major took every art class my school had to offer. In college I majored in Advertising Art and Design.
But I'm blessed to work with great people. I collaborate with brilliant stylists both here and in Paris. I work with a great design team. I really allow everyone to bring their ideas. I almost rely on them to inspire me.
Music is where I have the most creative freedom but I love producing. To me that's kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director sometimes picking a writer to the actors the wardrobe set design editing music and marketing.
Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women.
I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.
A purpose an intention a design strikes everywhere even the careless the most stupid thinker.
Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
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.
In my opinion no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
I like the body. I like to design everything to do with the body.
Design is everything. Everything!
Every contrivance of man every tool every instrument every utensil every article designed for use of each and every kind evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.
As a reward for their efforts however those early Christians were beaten stoned to death thrown to the lions tortured and crucified. Every conceivable method was used to stop them from talking.
Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration especially in the Pentagon where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war with disastrous results.