Design quotes

‘Design is neither an intellectual nor material affair –but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society’

Walter Gropius

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"Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking."
Chris Pullman
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"Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up."
Tate Linden
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"The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good."
Richard Saul Wurman
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"Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration."
Jeffrey Zeldman
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"Design is intelligence made visible."
Alina Wheeler
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"Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident."
Robert L. Peters
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"Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel."
Don Norman
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"Designing a product is designing a relationship."
Steve Rogers
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"Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy."
Leisa Reichelt
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"Getting addicted to design is bad for design"
Andy Altmann
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"Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror".
Juan-Carlos Fernàndez
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"Being a designers is like being a porn star. You're hot & popular for a year or two, then everyone goes off and finds something new to screww around too".
Jason Demetillo
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"It is not easy to know what you like. Most people fool themselves their entire lives about this. Self-acquaintance is a rare condition."
Robert Henri
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"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
Brian Reed
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"Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere."
Mieke Gerritzen
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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
Joe Sparano
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"Every designers’ dirty little secret is that they copy other designers’ work. They see work they like, and they imitate it. Rather cheekily, they call this inspiration."
Aaron Russell
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"An inexperienced observer sees everything in a picture; the experienced one sees even the things that are missing"
Rastko Ciric
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“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for ‘thinking wrong'."
in The Designful Company by Marty Neumeier
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