Good Design Quotes

• Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and Meaningful.

  Dieter Rams

  Meaningful, Memorable, Design

  "Basics Design 01: Format: Second Edition" by Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, A&C Black, (p. 151), May 1, 2012.

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• Good design is good business.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Death, Business, Design

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• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  Harry Bertoia

  Death, Design, Goes On

  "1000 Chairs". Book by Carlotte & Peter Fiell (p. 66), 2005.

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• Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

  Raymond Loewy

  Design, Black, Experience

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• Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

  Edward Tufte

  Thinking, Design, Made

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• Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Mean, Creativity, Thinking

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

  David Hockney

  Art, Moving, Design

  1988 In The Guardian, 26 Oct.

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• Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

  Freeman Thomas

  Honesty, Creative Collaboration, Tough Questions

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• Good design means as little design as possible.

  Dieter Rams

  Mean, Design, Littles

  François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

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• Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Death, Design Process, Aesthetic Beauty

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• 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.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Discipline, Design, Assuming

  Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE

  Tibor Kalman

  Differences, Design, Great Design

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• Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

  Terence Conran

  Death, Believe, Design

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• Accessible design is good design.

  Steve Ballmer

  Death, Design

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• Design means being good, not just looking good.

  Clement Mok

  Mean, Design Process, Looking Good

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• Good design doesn't cost, but it pays.

  Richard Driehaus

  Design, Cost, Pay

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• Good design doesn't date.

  Harry Seidler

  Dating, Design

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• I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  People, Design, Building

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Design

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• Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

  Paul Rand

  Death, Art, Simple

  "Learning PHP Design Patterns". Book by William Sanders (p. 105), 2013.

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• If you remember the shape of your spoon at lunch, it has to be the wrong shape. The spoon and the letter are tools; one to take food from the bowl, the other to take information off the page... When it is a good design, the reader has to feel comfortable because the letter is both banal and beautiful.

  Adrian Frutiger

  Beautiful, Lunch, Design

  "Design for knife: can cutlery help people with disabilities?" by Justin McGuirk, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.

  Wim Crouwel

  Work, Technology, Design

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