Design Quotes

3017 Design quotes by 1636 unique authors

Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a… — John Herschel
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such a fabulous… — Alan Watts
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.' — Alan Cooper
Users are not designers. — Jakob Nielsen
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it. — Alan Cooper
A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems. — Jef Raskin
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop. — Jakob Nielsen
A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. — Jakob Nielsen
What users want is convenience and results. — Jef Raskin
Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era. — Clement Mok
Simplicity is the final achievement. — Frederic Chopin
Become a creative thinking detective! Ask probing questions. There is no such thing as a wasted question. — Elaine Dundon
Design adds value faster than it adds cost. — Joel Spolsky
We try to solve the problem by rushing through the design process so that enough time is left at the end of the project to… — Glenford Myers
A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work. — Steve McConnell
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software… — Fred Brooks
If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. — Brian Foote
Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened… — Dieter Rams
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man gets it into his head to do something, and when he exclusively occupies himself in that design, he must succeed, whatever the… — Giacomo Casanova
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If… — James Lee Burke
Universal design systems can no longer be dismissed as the irrelevant musings of a small, localized design community. A second modernism has emerged, reinvigorating the… — Ellen Lupton
Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design. — Ellen Lupton
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information.… — Ellen Lupton

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