Good Design Quotes

Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.

Not all design is for the general good.

Good design is being able to put a $100,000 thing next to a $20 thing. If it looks right and it works then it works. It doesn't have to be expensive; it's all about the high meets low for me.

A good designer will actually design the company.

I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.

Design isn't risky - change is. Good design mitigates that risk.

The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.

Good design is forever.

As Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a 'singularity.'