Engineering Quote by Eric von Hippel

“between users and manufacturers is that users tend to develop innovations that are functionally novel, requiring a great deal of user-need information and use-context…

— Eric von Hippel

Pictures, abstract symbols, materials, and colors are among the ingredients with which a designer or engineer works. To design is to discover relationships and…

— Paul Rand

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Working within the constraints of a problem is part of the fun and challenge of design.

— Ellen Lupton

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material…

— Paul Rand

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

— Tim Brown

Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.

— Fred Brooks

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

— Kenya Hara

The single biggest problem in design is finding out from the client what it is that they really want.

— Syd Mead

“When you are a designer, you have to be able to convey your ideas to people who are not designers; perhaps they are financing…

— Leander Kahney

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you…

— Chip Kidd

Good design makes a product understandable.

— Dieter Rams