Appearance Quote by Donald A. Norman

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

— Donald A. Norman

Good design is a Renaissance attitude that combines tech, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something.

— Paola Antonelli

Good design makes a product understandable.

— Dieter Rams

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

— Dieter Rams

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes…

— Dieter Rams

Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic insight and…

— Millard Sheets

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

— Freeman Thomas

Good design means as little design as possible.

— Dieter Rams

Good design is probably something that has been thoroughly thought through to a point of resolution.

— David Linley

Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful

— Marcel Wanders

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

— Dieter Rams