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Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to
accomplish a particular purpose.
— Charles Eames
Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.
— Brian Reed
There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without
intelligence.
— Massimo Vignelli
People ignore design that ignores people.
— Frank Chimero
I've always held to the belief that the practice of creating compelling
graphic design occurs not by employing the principals of a democracy,
but rather, that of a monarchy.
— Thomas Vasquez
Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
— Joe Sparano
Every designers' dirty little secret is that they copy other designers'
work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily,
they call this inspiration.
— Aaron Russell
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box
and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.
— Marty Neumeier
Visual design is often the polar opposite of engineering: trading hard
edges for subjective decisions based on gut feelings and personal
experiences. It's messy, unpredictable, and notoriously hard to measure.
The apparently erratic behavior of artists drives engineers bananas.
Their decisions seem arbitrary and risk everything with no guaranteed
benefit.
— Scott Stevenson
Design is where science and art break even.
— Robin Mathew
Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.
— Mieke Gerritzen
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and
an antidote to accident.
— Robert L. Peters
Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art; art
and craft; intuition and reason; concept and detail; playfulness and
formality; client and designer; designer and printer; and printer and
public.
— Valerie Pettis
Design should never say, "Look at me." It should always say, "Look at this."
— David Craib
Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.
— Juan-Carlos Fernàndez
Don't design for everyone. It's impossible. All you end up doing is
designing something that makes everyone unhappy.
— Leisa Reichelt
Design is as much an act of spacing as an act of marking.
— Ellen Lupton
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art,
science, and culture.
— Jeff Smith
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
— Edward Tufte
Design is intelligence made visible.
— Alina Wheeler
Math is easy; design is hard.
— Jeffrey Veen
Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order.
— Victor Papanek
Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less
often than my socks.
— Suleiman Leadbitter
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design,
it's decoration.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about
giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good
design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive
science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world
didn't know it was missing.
— Paola Antonelli
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum
everything up.
— Tate Linden
Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of
thinking.
— Chris Pullman
Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
— Fabien Barral
Design is about making things good (and then better) and right (and
fantastic) for the people who use and encounter them.
— Matt Beale
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up
expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.
— Steve Jobs
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 Phillips
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability,
understanding, but also the feel.
— Don Norman
Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals,
and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the
number of awards it wins.
— Drew Davies
Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.
— Noreen Morioka
Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.
— Robert L. Peters
It's art if can't be explained.
It's fashion if no one asks for an explanation.
It's design if it doesn't need explanation.
— Wouter Stokkel
You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your
work enormously.
— Wim Crouwel
I love the comment, "You must love designing for a living." At that
point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears.
— Andrew Lewis
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of
the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding it's a
'day one' issue and part of everything.
— Tom Peters
Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally
to the later users and recipients of their work.
— Hans Höger
Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.
— Milton Glaser
I find modernist design boring, but it so much faster!
— Christine Suewon Lee
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
— Douglas Adams
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
— Sir Alec Issigonis
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly
the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens
to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.
— Leo Frankowski
For me, design is like choosing what I'm going to wear for the day -
only much more complicated and not really the same at all.
— Robynne Raye
Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets
and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social
responsibility. Good design allows "form to complement performance." The
way things look is not irrelevant to the way things work: how they work
is how they should look.
— Thomas F. Schutte
Art is like masturbation. It is selfish and introverted and done for you
and you alone. Design is like sex. There is someone else involved, their
needs are just as important as your own, and if everything goes right,
both parties are happy in the end.
— Colin Wright
Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and
the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a
strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions,
guiding the work.
— Noreen Morioka
I would show my my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same
thing: "That's nice dear." And then she would say, "Did you write it?"
or "Did you do the drawing?" or "Did you take the pictures?" I'd always
answer "no," then I realized the problem. My answer was then, "I made
this happen. It's called design."
— Brian Webb
Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity,
solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a
single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of
continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and
evolving the product or service.
— Dan Brown
Technology over technique produces emotionless design.
— Daniel Mall
I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is
fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture.
It is Accessibility. This is all design.
— Mark Boulton
A design isn't finished until somebody is using it.
— Brenda Laurel/p>
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.
— Massimo Vignelli
If design isn't profitable, then it's art.
— Henrik Fiskar
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because
that idea wasn't theirs.
— Frank Chimero
A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel
of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words.
— Mandy Brown
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.
— David Carson
The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design
skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it.
— Scott Hanselman
Practice safe design: Use a concept.
— Petrula Vrontikis
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet
identifiable for others.
— Orson Welles
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the
aesthete unoffended.
— Raymond Loewy
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a
chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an
environment in a city plan.
— Eliel Saarinen
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple,
uncluttered form.
— David Lewis
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing
left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they
could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own
living room carpet, I suppose.
— Chris Bangle
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times,
people don't know what they want until you show it to them.
— Steve Jobs
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and
humanism.
— Erik Adigard
To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond
its function. Otherwise it's just planning.
— Ayse Birsel
— Ivan Chermayeff
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the
people for whom the object is intended.
— Adrian Forty
Many things difficult to design prove easy to perform.
— Samuel Johnson
The designer is a visually literate person, just as an editor is
expected by training and inclination to be versed in language and
literature, but to call the former an artist by occupation is as absurd
as to refer to the latter as a poet.
— Douglas Martin
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite
beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design
is bad design, not no design at all. Everyone makes design decisions all
the time without realizing it—like Moliere's M. Jourdain who discovered
he had been speaking prose all his life—and good design is simply the
result of making these decisions consciously, at the right stage, and in
consultation with others as the need arises.
— Douglas Martin
Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood
form on your forehead.
— Marty Neumeier
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.
— Victor Papanek
Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity,
rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design
is to make complicated things simple.
— Tim Parsey
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. He new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
— Paul Rand
Art is an idea that has found its perfect visual expression. And design
is the vehicle by which this expression is made possible. Art is a noun,
and design is a noun and also a verb. Art is a product and design is a
process. Design is the foundation of all the arts.
— Paul Rand
Designing a product is designing a relationship.
— Steve Rogers
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers
fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of
content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the
experience is and what the audience's role in it will be.
— Edwin Schlossberg
Good design is good business.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a
great product to achieve its maximum potential.
— Thomas J. Watson Jr.
…designers can make life more bearable by producing stuff that touches
its audience rather than fucks them in the head.
— Jon Wozencraft
Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things.
It's a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy.
— Erik Adigard
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people
who will be using it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and
even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good
rather than the God of Being-Good.
— Richard Saul Wurman
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