Good Design Quotes
90 quotes by 63 authors
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Good design is good business.
— Thomas Watson, Jr.
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Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
— Otl Aicher
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Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
— Dieter Rams
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Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
— George Nelson
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Good design means as little design as possible.
— Dieter Rams
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Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
— Freeman Thomas
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Good design is not an applied veneer.
— Raymond Loewy
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Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology…
— Clement Mok
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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
— Terence Conran
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A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
— Neil Tierney
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Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
— Massimo Vignelli
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Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand…
— Massimo Vignelli
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Good design, when it’s done well, becomes invisible. It’s only when it’s done poorly that we notice it. Think of it like a room’s air…
— Jared Spool
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No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes. What…
— George Nelson
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People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the…
— Paola Antonelli
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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
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Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.
— Alexander Isley
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Good designers copy; great designers steal.
— Pablo Picasso
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Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
— Edward Tufte
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Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
— Raymond Loewy
Who Wrote These Good Design Quotes
63 authors contributed a total of 90 Good Design Quotes, led by these top contributors: