Design Quotes

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

For me, the sound design and the musical score is a big part of what makes scary movies work.

My passion for music has always inspired my designs.

I'm not a god, I'm not a genius, I'm not a monk, I make non-design for non-consumers. I don't know if I do exist.

When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today.

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Don't bore the public with mysterious designs.

This is not a great phone. It's an interesting design.

Rooms should be timeless.

Be stimulated by rejection

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

The opposite of play is not work. It's depression.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.

Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.

Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

If design isn't profitable, then it's art.

Being a winner is never an accident; winning comes about by design, determination and positive action.

The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

Simplicity is the final achievement.

I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

If you look at any designer you admire, whose work inspires you, and whose approach somehow resonates with you, I promise you'll find a person who does not think of what they do as just their job

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

We go to war only to make peace. We never went to war with any other design. We carry the national conscience wherever we go.

If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings.

Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Learn how to set goals. That's the key to everything. That includes designing your own success. You define what the goal is, it's not somebody else's goal, it's yours.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

All of science is largely formalized common sense.

Solving a problem simply means representing it so as to make the solution transparent.

Every little job counts. Design counts.

Math is easy; design is hard.

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients.

Designers are not users.

Yes, design can make you happy.

The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

Good design, when done well, should be invisible.