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Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design. -- Jesse James Garrett
I have been collecting pictures of airport carpets since the early 2000s because I am fascinated by their role as the world's largest interior visual design medium. -- George Pendle
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem -- Marcel Duchamp
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways. -- Barbara Kruger
As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good. -- Sophia Amoruso
Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process. -- Paul Rand
Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over. -- B. J. Novak
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. -- David Carson
We've carried that over into the visual development as well. We've designed quite an exotic cast of characters, but the last thing we want is to dictate to the players how their PCs should look. What we want to do is inspire. -- Sam Wood
I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job. -- Asif Kapadia
So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual perspective, with the graphic design and that whole thing. I don't know if that comes from my love of photography or what but that's always what's held my interest about them. -- Sophia Bush
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. -- Peter York
The devices that our kids use are shipped from the factory with every possible audio, visual or vibration alert switched on. Each new app, website, tweet and message adds another layer of intrusion - each intrusion is cynically designed to get a response, and each response creates an appetite for another intrusion. -- Beeban Kidron
I feel that every day, all of us now are being blasted by information design. It's being poured into our eyes through the Web, and we're all visualizers now; we're all demanding a visual aspect to our information. There's something almost quite magical about visual information. It's effortless; it literally pours in. -- David McCandless
I have been fully involved in designing my stage shows; it's important to me to do something really unique and almost off-the-wall to bring the music and the visuals together. I love design and actually went to school for a bit for graphic design, so it isn't so much 'pressure' for me; it's a way to be creative, and I really enjoy it. -- Afrojack
Design is thinking made visual. -- Saul Bass
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. -- Edward Tufte
Graphic Design is the communication of information in an appropriate visual manner. -- Massimo Vignelli
Us visual thinkers like me, be good at things like industrial design, graphics, art, those kind of jobs. -- Temple Grandin
Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained. -- Ferdinand Porsche
Both of them are close to how I'd envisioned them. In Ico's case the design and in SotC's the visual look were very close to what I'd imagined. -- Fumito Ueda
In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them -- Doug Aitken

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