Quotes About Communication

Traditional communication design and the digital revolution will certainly blend and integrate, as clients' communications needs rarely involve just one medium.

Customers can't always tell you what they want, but they can always tell you what's wrong.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

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.

The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate.

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

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

I think design does evolve in a meaningful sense. I think if you look at design as a part of the continuum of communication, since even before Guttenberg.

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

Those who say "it's not personal, it's just business" are lying. All business is personal, and the best business is very personal.

When we use a language, we should commit ourselves to knowing it, being able to read it, and writing it idiomatically.

The design should make the product speak to you.

If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers?

Having first rate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom.

Meta-design is much more difficult than design; it's easier to draw something than to explain how to draw it.

While language can surely be used for communication (as can much else), communication probably has no special role in its design or evolution.

Think like a customer

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

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.

When typography is on point, words become images.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin, or any of the more than six thousand languages spoken today.

Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design.

Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.