Quotes About Design

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

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

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

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.

I rarely agree with what clients ask me to do.

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

Yes, design can make you happy.

Designers are not users.

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

Every little job counts. Design counts.

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

Hiring people to write code to sell is not the same as hiring people to design and build durable, usable, dependable software.

The strongest logos tell simple stories.

I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory.

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Inspiration the seed. Design but the flower.

The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.

There is no one, right way to design or develop anything. To a large degree, it needs to reflect the culture - especially the innovation culture - of a company.

To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

Design is the key to everything. If you learn how to design you can do anything.

Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order