Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

The display is the computer. — Jen-Hsun Huang
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans. — Peter Morville
Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product. — Jesse James Garrett
Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design. — Jesse James Garrett
The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design. — Steven Johnson
That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface. — Steven Johnson
Good design makes a product understandable. — Dieter Rams
Art does not begin with imitation, but with discipline. — Sun Ra
History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as… — Thomas Jefferson
Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous. — Ralph Caplan
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose. — Edward Tufte
Accessible design is good design. — Steve Ballmer
The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer. — Piet Zwart
Real web designers write code. Always have, always will. — Jeffrey Zeldman
If you don't talk to your customers, how will you know how to talk to your customers? — Will Evans
It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds. — Paula Scher
I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client… — Saul Bass
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident,… — Ellen Lupton
Every creative act is open war against The Way It Is. What you are saying when you make something is that the universe is not… — Jerry Holkins
If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product. — Victor Papanek
Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon. — Merlin Mann
Repetition is the death of magic. — Bill Watterson
The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive… — Stanley Kubrick
A man-made thing that produces pleasure (and criticism) by somehow taping into the order of the universe is beautiful. Making beautiful things makes our lives… — Tucker Viemeister
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately, and,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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