Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Trying to find my way around the Rayburn building is always a challenge. Combining my poor sense of direction with a confusing design is not good.
Biomimicry is basically taking a design challenge and then finding an ecosystem that's already solved that challenge, and literally trying to emulate what you learn.
You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.
While I was at college studying design I decided to paint. I was also greatly inspired by the colours that I had seen on my travels in the Brazilian Rain forest.
If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.
Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products.
I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.
Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.
'Intelligent Design,' the relabeled, repackaged form of American creationism, has always had a problem. It just can't seem to produce any evidence.
By no definition of any modern scientist is intelligent design science, and it's a waste of our students' time to subject them to it.
But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband?
I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work.
Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense authorization bill.
In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.
We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.
The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England.
There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit.
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design.
What we do in the laboratory is we try to design drugs that will not just eradicate cancer cells but will eradicate their homes.
