Bad Design Quotes

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

If bad decorating was a hanging offense, there'd be bodies hanging from every tree!

The Kaws IV is terrible. That's a bad hoop shoe. That suede rubs against your feet. I had to triple my socks. The leather on the inside is a no-go.

Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

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.

Job Control Language is the worst programming language ever designed anywhere by anybody for any purpose.

Noise is a parasite. Anything noisy is poorly designed.

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

In China, we had some buildings that looked like the White House or wine bottles. All they seemed to represent was bad taste.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

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.

The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

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.

Sometimes living in a room that's badly designed isn't the worst thing in the world. Trust me - this is a fact! Living in a room that has no design whatsoever is even worse. I've learned this from my many clients over the years that have moved into new houses and just can't figure out where to begin.

It's a very strange thing for a designer to say, but one of the things that really irritates me in products is when I'm aware of designers wagging their tails in my face.

Ladies, I urge you never to buy a black bathroom suite. 'CBB' decided this would be glamorous. 'CBB' was wrong.

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography