- Everything is designed. Few things are designed well. Brian Reed
- There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence. Massimo Vignelli
- People ignore design that ignores people. Frank Chimero
- Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. Joe Sparano
- 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
- Design is where science and art break even. Robin Mathew
- Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere. Mieke Gerritzen
- Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood. Fabien Barral
- Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. Steve Jobs
- Many desperate acts of design (including gradients, drop shadows, and the gratuitous use of transparency) are perpetuated in the absence of a strong concept. A good idea provides a framework for design decisions, guiding the work. Noreen Morioka
- Technology over technique produces emotionless design. Daniel Mall
- A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel
- If design isn’t profitable, then it’s art. Henrik Fiskar
- The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. Massimo Vignelli
- The difference between a Designer and Developer, when it comes to design skills, is the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. Scott Hanselman
- Practice safe design: Use a concept. Petrula Vrontikis
- At a meta level, design connects the dots between mere survival and humanism. Erik Adigard
- Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead. Marty Neumeier
- Good design is good business. Thomas J. Watson Jr.
- Designing a product is designing a relationship. Steve Rogers