Best Designers Quotations
308 Designers quotes by 227 unique authors
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I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of…
— Dieter Rams
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Good designers must always be avant-gardists, always one step ahead of the times. They should – and must – question everything generally thought to be…
— Dieter Rams
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We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.
— Dieter Rams
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If the designers of X Windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed…
— Marcus J. Ranum
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Many young web designers view their craft the way I used to view pop culture. It's cool or it's crap. They mistake Style for Design,…
— Jeffrey Zeldman
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Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced.
— Fred Brooks
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of…
— Valentino Garavani
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My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland. It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov became very well-known in…
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
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Are there a lot of designers that matter? The industry hasn’t got a litmus test any more. The whole thing has imploded. Watch it die,…
— Louise Wilson
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In future there will be no more designers. The designers of the future will be the personal coach, the gym trainer, the diet consultant,
— Philippe Starck
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I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
— Janet Echelman
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Graphic designers are idea embalmers, loving undertakers preserving bits of data like to many butterflies pinned to felt in a jewel box.
— Paul Saffo
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The other big factor in building trust quickly is site design quality. Mint.com has one of the best graphic designers ever (Jason Putorti) - he…
— Aaron Patzer
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The best designers in the world all squint when they look at something. They squint to see the forest from the trees - to find…
— John Maeda
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Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.
— Edward Tufte
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Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
— Patricia Velasquez
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater is necessarily a group effort.…
— Laurence Sterne
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When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology,
— Howard Rheingold
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Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks deeply, with the…
— Janine Benyus
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Reality is broken. Game designers can fix it.
— Jane McGonigal
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Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.
— Jakob Nielsen
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If more designers had bad backs, we would have more good chairs.
— Ralph Caplan
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Designers shouldn’t design for museums any more than mummies should die for them.
— Ralph Caplan
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Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and…
— Paola Antonelli
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