Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

Good designers copy; great designers steal. — Pablo Picasso
If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune. — Bruce Tognazzini
People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong. — Merlin Mann
Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them. — Marty Neumeier
If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking. — Donald A. Norman
What is to be sought in designs for the display of information is the clear portrayal of complexity. Not the complication of the simple; rather… — Edward Tufte
Where I come from, gettin' visual is habitual. — Unknown Author
When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out,… — Seth Godin
You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things. — Neil Gaiman
I try and be as stupid as possible regarding my profession, which means I try to look at as few design magazines as possible. — Ettore Sottsass
It's all one to me: opera, painting, drawing, faxes. — David Hockney
Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty. — Emil Ruder
I warn you against believing that advertising is a science. — William Bernbach
The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable. — Jonathan Ive
When in doubt, use Caslon. — Unknown Author
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to 'tidy up' the mess, as opposed to understanding… — Tom Peters
I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spear into the darkness. That… — Ingmar Bergman
Senior men have no monopoly on great ideas. Nor do creative people. Some of the best ideas come from account executives, researchers and others. Encourage… — David Ogilvy
Stick to your knitting (what you're good at), don't compromise, and don't suffer fools. — Simone Campbell
Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture. — Anthony Burgess
It isn't a question of enhancement through design. Whether an editor realizes it or not, design is part of what he does every time he… — Unknown Author
To create a memorable design you need to start with a thought that's worth remembering. — Thomas Manss
Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. — Richard Chenevix Trench
I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think… — Unknown Author
Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in… — Robert Brunner

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