Engineering Quote by Brian Christian

The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.

— Bruce Mau

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder

To design is to plan and to organize, to order, to relate and to control. In short it embraces all means of opposing disorder…

— Josef Albers

“Design is art optimized to meet objectives.”

— Shimon Shmueli

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

“Fortunately, when it comes to designing for simplicity, the key emotional need is for users to feel that they’re in control.”

— Giles Colborne

Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs…

— Gianfranco Frattini

We must use design to inspire better outcomes.

— Dean Phillips

to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to…

— Alain de Botton

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

— Marcel Wanders