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Create your own visual style. Let it be unique to you, yet identifiable by others.
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The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.
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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
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Always design something by considering its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city.
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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.
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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.
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It’s art if it can’t be explained. It’s fashion if no one ask for an explanation. It’s design if it doesn’t need explanation.
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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.
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Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration.
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Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.