Quotes About Innovation

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.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

Designers need to be mavericks, because the best way to design a successful object is to pretend that either it never existed or that people will be able to have a new behavior with it.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.

Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

I'm interested in designing not the object but the process that leads to the object.

I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter

Kids are taking PCs and the Internet to new heights. They're the ones that are designing the cutting-edge web sites.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint.

There's no such thing as designing the perfect utopian city. Everything is subject to change. There are no final frontiers.

I'm operating in the gap between the trajectory of modernity and the trajectory of modernism. So what people think is design is not design, it's my attempt to engage with the trajectory of modernity.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

It's difficult for a company to be anywhere interesting in a world that is so dominated by prototypes and great and bright ideas.

I was always pretty good at designing things.

We should not try to design a better world. We should make better feedback loops.

You know, the only way I've found to make these pictures is with animators. You can't seem to do it with accountants and bookkeepers.

Imitation can be commercial suicide.

There are 9 rejected ideas for every idea that works.

Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger.