Consumer Quote by Saul Griffith

The principal and only way to make an heirloom product is to design something that people will need not just this year, but for…

— Saul Griffith

A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!

— Neil Tierney

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

— Dieter Rams

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

— Donald A. Norman

Good design makes a product understandable.

— Dieter Rams

The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done.

— L. Bruce Archer

Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

— Jonathan Ive

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would…

— Niels Diffrient

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

— Fred Wilson

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual,…

— Bill Buxton

In the future, in a saner system, we would design products not to wear out and break down; to last as long as possible,…

— Jacque Fresco

Once you think you have the formula for good design, you’re dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.

— Michael Vanderbyl