Design Quotes

A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so.

[Graphics] is a strict and simple system of signs, which anyone can learn to use and which leads to better understanding.

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

There are three basic principles behind any well-designed product: truth, humanity, and simplicity.

I try to think and design in color.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

I don't think that success is the premise to what is good or bad.

Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

Real web designers write code. Always have, always will.

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

Design Star' was incredible, and I didn't think it could get any better, and then 'Color Splash' happened.

A great ad campaign will make a bad product fail faster. It will get more people to know it's bad.

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.

Design that moves others comes from issues that move you.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

If there was no praise or criticism in the world, then who would you be?

You make your own luck. Luck is the residue of design.

What users want is convenience and results.

Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.

We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.

Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.

When I have to critique someone else's web design, rather than write up a giant email or take a screengrab and move stuff around in Photoshop, I put together a really quick CSS doc making my changes.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

Design theorists are no friends of theistic evolution.

A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.

I'm Irish but I design something that is quintessentially English and I love hats.

Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

Lead a life of your own design, on your own terms -not one that others, or the environment have scripted for you.

It should almost be a prerequisite to play Castle Stuart before you're allowed to design golf courses nowadays.

I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.

The challenge is to develop visions, strategies, design and innovation, not just for surviving but for thriving in this new globalising society.

Design is everything.

I'm not too fond of really cool design. I've got quite kitsch taste really, in things like tableware. I'm quite a sucker for 1930s pressed glass.

Lofty designs must close in like effects.

There's no way a photograph has to look... in a sense. There are no formal rules of design that can apply.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

If your result needs a statistician then you should design a better experiment.

Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.

When there's an opportunity, some people pass it by. I've been lucky enough to recognise opportunities and every day, in my business, there's an opportunity somewhere - to buy, expand, design.

You know music and sound design can be very powerful with how you use it but also the absence of sound can say a lot as well.

It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

Find the simplest model that is not a lie is the key to better software design.