Design Quote by William McDonough ( ) Michael Braungart

“Anyone who doesn’t design, accepts to be designed.”

— Giulio Carlo Argan

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

— Wim Crouwel

My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't designing a house for…

— Richard Saul Wurman

The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.

— Carl Jung

“Repeatedly asking “so what” eventually throws up an emotional need, a rational need, and a solution. It also helps you arrive at a deeper…

— Giles Colborne

The design is done when the problem goes away.

— Jason Fried

“That I expect them to break the rules and to climb up to the highest branch and saw it off behind them. I tell…

— Julie Lythcott-Haims

“Don't make more versions of your source code. Rather than add more code bases, fix the underlying design problem that is preventing you from…

— Kent Beck

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

— Anonymous

Sometimes clients have a sophisticated view of their design problem, sometimes they do not. I often spend time with the client redefining the problem,…

— Saul Bass

Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need…

— Daniel H. Pink

The boundaries of design are the same as the problem of perception.

— John Hench