Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients. — Unknown Author
Theory can blind observation. — Carol Gilligan
Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better. — William Bernbach
The hole and the patch should be commensurate. — Thomas Jefferson
The easier you make it for people to go, the more likely they are to stay. — Dave Winer
An electrician isn't an opinion former, but a graphic designer is. My argument is that all graphic designers hold high levels of responsibility in society.… — Neville Brody
Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward. — Jonah Lehrer
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. — Robert L. Peters
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. — Edward Tufte
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman
Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel. — Donald A. Norman
A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it… — Unknown Author
I would show my jobs to my mother, and she would always say the same thing: "That's nice dear". And then she would say: "Did… — Brian Webb
If design isn't profitable, then it's art. — Unknown Author
Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does. — David Carson
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. — Erik Adigard
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended. — Unknown Author
The only important thing about design is how it relates to people. — Victor Papanek
It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and… — Edwin Schlossberg
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. — Thomas Watson, Jr.
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I've never had a problem with a dumb client. There is no such thing as a bad client. Part of our job is to do… — Bob Gill
It's through mistakes that you actually can grow. You have to get bad in order to get good. — Paula Scher
If you do good work for good clients, it will lead to other good work for other good clients. If you do bad work for… — Michael Bierut

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