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  • The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring. -- Paul Rand
  • Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible -- Edward Tufte
  • If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design. -- Ralf Speth
  • There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design. -- Edward Tufte
  • In all situations where bad design decisions were made, people lacked some information that would have helped them make the right decision. -- Jared Spool
  • The great pyramid is overrated. It's a bad design. The lounge is going to be huge, but the bedroom is going to be tiny. -- Karl Pilkington
  • Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions. -- Donald A. Norman
  • I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about. -- Carrie Fulton Phillips
  • Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers. -- Alexander McQueen
  • One of the things I've been trying to do is look for simpler or rules underpinning good or bad design. I think one of the most valuable rules is avoid duplication. "Once and only once" is the Extreme Programming phrase. -- Martin Fowler
  • When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; youll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. -- Cameron Sinclair
  • When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken. -- Cameron Sinclair
  • 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. -- Jonathan Ive
  • Good design doesn't date. Bad design does. -- Paul Rand
  • The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news. -- Daniel Kahneman
  • I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad. -- Joe Jonas
  • I understand the bad rap that 3-D is getting because the conversions are crappy and because the films aren't designed for 3-D. It's a completely different medium. -- Alfonso Cuaron
  • I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad. -- Douglas Wilson
  • Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them. -- Isaac Barrow
  • There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply them and articulate them and execute them - the story, the quality of the writing, the acting, the design elements, the directorial execution - all these things make it what it is. -- Andy Garcia
  • When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little. -- Miuccia Prada
  • Improving your process won't move you from good to great design. It'll move you from bad to average. -- Fred Brooks
  • If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity. -- John Ruskin
  • I like the idea that people get engaged thinking about design, about creativity. I don't see how it could possibly be bad. -- Susan Orlean
  • Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment. -- Blake Crouch
  • Emphasizing the crowd means de-emphasizing individual humans in the design of society, and when you ask people not to be people, they revert to bad, mob-like behaviors. -- Jaron Lanier
  • I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse. -- Heidi Julavits
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