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Quotes About Design

I'm one of the few people who understands how producing technology requires intuition and creativity, and how producing something artistic takes real discipline.
~ Steve Jobs
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both.
~ Steve Jobs
Computer language design is just like a stroll in the park. Jurassic Park, that is.
~ Larry Wall
Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.
~ Jared Spool
Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways.
~ David Rockwell
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
~ Edward Tufte
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new technologies.
~ Zaha Hadid
A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.
~ Peter Thiel
The creative industries tend to dismiss technology as just something to buy and not understand how hard it is and how creative it can be as well.
~ Steve Jobs
The Lexus LS 460 was designed to expand on the definition of the full-size luxury sedan as well as the level of innovative technology, especially as it relates to safety.
~ Robert M. Carter
The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible.
~ J.G. Ballard
For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.
~ Evgeny Morozov
I consider myself a 3-D philosopher. I am not a designer at all. I studied aerodynamics, I studied philosophy, I studied sculpture. High technology on one side, and on the other side, art.
~ Luigi Colani
I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in
~ Donald A. Norman
Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.
~ Douglas Rushkoff
Animation has always been about technology. You can't have animation without technology.
~ Chris Wedge
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
~ Francois-Henri Pinault
Websites should look good from the inside and out.
~ Paul Cookson
We want to make every single interaction in the world into a ready-to-use brick.
~ Ayah Bdeir
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
~ Donald A. Norman
I am interested in computers and technology, and art, photography, and design.
~ William Landay
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
~ Antoine Predock
The number one thing is creating this world ["Trolls" ] - what the world is going to look like, feel like and what technology will we need to use to get there.
~ Walt Dohrn