Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's… — Zaha Hadid
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs it,… — Unknown Author
With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension. — Unknown Author
Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our human-made… — Michael Shannon
The essential function of the (design) profession in our society is to enhance and cultivate communications toward: Easier understanding of ideas and complex problems, in… — Will Burtin
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us… — Aaron Betsky
Design is the term we use to describe both the process and the result of giving tangible form to human ideas. Design doesn't just contribute… — Unknown Author
For me, the concept of design is more than object-oriented; it encompasses the design of processes, systems and institutions as well. Increasingly, we need to… — John Seely Brown
Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works,… — Victor Papanek
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories,… — Norman Potter
Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl.… — Chuck Green
The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done. — Unknown Author
Design is a form of competitive advantage. People tend to think of design as good art, good visual language, which it absolutely has to be.… — James P Hackett
Design is a response to social change. — George Nelson
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but… — Donald A. Norman
You have to be interested in culture to design for it. — Unknown Author
Be culturally literate, because if you don't have any understanding of the world you live in and the culture you live in, you're not going… — Paula Scher
Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used. — Unknown Author
The more that a person brings to design, the better his or her ability to communicate. — Michael Vanderbyl
I have no recipe for how to combine things. But you must be sincere. And if you are, strangely, it will succeed. — Andree Putman
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that,… — Samuel Mockbee
I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the table so they can identify… — Chuck Jones
Design that moves others comes from issues that move you. — Jennifer Morla
Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response. — April Greiman

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