Confidence Quote by John Maeda

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

Design is about the betterment of our lives poetically, aesthetically, experientially, sensorially, and emotionally.

— Karim Rashid

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

All design is the process of making experiences.

— Nathan Shedroff

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

— Marcel Wanders

“When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something.…

— Leander Kahney

to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to…

— Alain de Botton

Design is the fundamental creative activity with which we direct our lives, and collectively, the earth's transformation from its original, natural state into our…

— Michael Shannon

Designs are a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

— Geoffrey Beene

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.

— Steve Jobs

“design thinking requires bridging the “knowing-doing gap.” The tools of the design thinker—getting out into the world to be inspired by people, using prototyping…

— Tim Brown

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs…

— Jared Spool