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The goal of a designer is to listen, observe, understand, sympathize, empathize, synthesize and glean insights that enable him or her to “make the invisible… — Hillman Curtis
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a… — Alvin Lustig
We should tell more young designers not to worry about what they're going to do with their design careers. They should start their own brands.… — Karim Rashid
Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair,… — Albert Hadley
There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it,… — Kurt Squire
The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they spend… — Jared Spool
Constrained optimization is the art of compromise between conflicting objectives. This is what design is all about. To find fault with biological design - as… — William A. Dembski
The best designers will use many design patterns that dovetail and intertwine to produce a greater whole. — Erich Gamma
I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a… — Kate Upton
My favorite designer is Christian Lacroix, not just because his clothes are amazing and I love them, but because he's so nice. When I did… — Adriana Lima
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. — Jeffrey Veen
The term Hispanic, coined by technomarketing experts and by the designers of political campaigns, homogenizes our cultural diversity (Chicanos, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans become indistinguishable),… — Unknown Author
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. — Jeffrey Veen
It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth… — Stephanie Ellis
The biggest mistake young designers make is that they try to make their advertising look like advertising — Jeff Goodby
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. — Ashly Lorenzana
The belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least… — Niklaus Wirth
Unsolicited redesigns are terrific and fun and useful, and I hope designers never stop doing them. But as they do so, I also hope they… — Unknown Author
Good designers copy; great designers steal. — Pablo Picasso
Designers don't actually solve problems. They work through them. — Marty Neumeier
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
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
Design is an art of situations. Designers respond to a need, a problem, a circumstance, that arises in the world. The best work is produced… — Ellen Lupton
I don't think that design needs theory, but I think designers need theory. — Unknown Author
They enjoy giving form to ideas. If designers were made of ideas, they'd be their own clients. — Unknown Author

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