Design

A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

Actively hunt in other fields for inspiration and ideas that challenge our assumptions and that we could learn from.

Good product design requires an obsessed artist - it’s not a part-time job.

Pleated shirt by <n>Issey Miyake</n>, 1993.

i've got a confession to make: i'm a devout follower of the religion of design. yeah, you heard that right. in my world, design isn't just a job or a skill - it's a full-blown belief system. let me take you on a journey through my daily devotion to the cult of aesthetics and…

We create to understand, and in the process, we discover a world of possibilities longing to be materialized.

ONE MUST ALWAYS BE CAREFUL NOT TO JUMP OFF THE HANDLE INTO MEANINGLESS EXTRAPOLATION. ONE MUST CONSTANTLY ASK "HOW DOES THIS ALL PIECE TOGETHER?"

Design as a personal, ideological, or political action is important and useful; design as an industry is not. Why train students to be part of an industry? Why not train them to be active parts of the world?

The aura of care in UX

dear product designers 

please adopt the industrial design principles by assigning meaning to the colors you use in products — don’t follow the interior design values by decorating your interfaces  

Every decision should carry meaning — specially if you are working on b2b…

If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.

The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you're toast.

“Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.”  
—Naoto Fukasawa

Everything around me was someone's lifework

Intuition over data - Intuition over data - Intuition over data

“Design won’t save the world, but it damn sure makes it look good.”

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”



— Buckminster Fuller

Design is born out of Research, out of a positive approatch. The Ideas must contain Life, and be energized with living. -Issey Miyake

“If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, don't bother trying to teach them. Instead, give them a tool, the use of which will lead to new ways of thinking.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A quote by designer <n>Dieter Rams</n>, from <n>The Place</n>.