Among Quote by Henry Petroski

“A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.”

— Steven Pinker

No design can exist in isolation. It is always related, sometimes in very complex ways, to an entire constellation of influencing situations and attitudes.…

— George Nelson

Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order

— Victor Papanek

The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be

— Paula Scher

Design is the organization of materials and processes in the most productive way, in a harmonious balance of all elements necessary for a certain…

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

— Aza Raskin

Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates…

— Victor Papanek

In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.

— Anonymous

Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible,…

— David Mccandless

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

— Fred Brooks

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

— Emil Ruder

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

— Jules Feiffer