445 Quotes Regarding Design


I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.
Marc Newson

Accessible design is good design.
Steve Ballmer

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
Donald Norman

The proper study of mankind is the science of design.
Herbert Simon

So, to really execute design in its highest form and making people feel joy, that's a great reward.
Genevieve Gorder

I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
Daniel Libeskind

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
Mitchell Kapor

Design is people.
Jane Jacobs

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.
Leo Fender

I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
Mike Davidson

I would think twice about designing stuff for which there was no need and which didn't endure.
Robin Day

Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.
Kenzo Tange

Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
David McFadden

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
Milton Glaser

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold.
James Randolph Adams

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.
Jim Rohn

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn