Quotes About Design

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

If you don't have experience sewing, start with that, because that will inform what you are able to design.

User experience is important to strategy.

I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte.

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

Was Daedalus really stricken with grief when Icarus fell into the sea? Or just disappointed by the design failure

If your users have many questions, it's a failure of your primary site design. It becomes not so much customer support, as much as customer complaints.

Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.

Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

Faith gives the assurance that our lives and our history have a moral design.

Intelligent design is consistent with any faith system I can think of, because most faith systems believe that there is a creator.

Where there are people, there is injustice, and that is not God's design. It may not be our fault, but it is our fight. Let us do our part by holding up our corners.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.