Accounts Quote by Melinda Gates

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

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

— Mark Parker

Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients.

— Henry Dreyfuss

“methods of human-centered, design-based innovation: user observations, brainstorming, prototyping, storytelling, and scenario building.”

— Tim Brown

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

— Marcel Wanders

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

— Ivan Chermayeff

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

— Kenya Hara

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of…

— Jesse James Garrett

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

— Anonymous

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

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

— Naoto Fukasawa

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must…

— Ivan Chermayeff