Quotes About Design

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow he didn't consult a decorator or he would still be picking colors.

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible. There are no prima donnas in engineering.

Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

And with it all, good design's not about what medium you're working in, it's about thinking hard about what you want to do and what you have to work with before you start."

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Behind every attractive room there should be a very good reason.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.

Accessible design is good design.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Certainly not every good program is object-oriented, and not every object-oriented program is good.

To create well I have to be in a good mood, happy and cool.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

I wasn't a very good illustrator so I became a designer.

All good art is abstract in its structure.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.