Design Quotes and Sayings

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

I didn’t get into design to be an artist. To me, an artist creates things to evoke emotion. Being a designer goes a step further than that, not only trying to evoke emotion but trying to make a reaction. It is very objective-driven, and that’s what makes it interesting.
Mike Davidson

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams

Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.
Jeffery Veen

Love. What is love? No word can define it, it’s something so great, only God could design it. Yes, love is beyond, what man can define, for love is immortal, and God’s gift is divine.
Anonymous

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.
Don Norman

Design’s fundamental role is problem solver.
Fast Company

The computer can’t tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what’s missing is the eyebrows.
Frank Zappa

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George Smith Patton

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Otto von Bismarck

We are not inferring design to account for a black box, but to account for an open box.
Michael Behe

Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Bo Bennett

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

Interactive design a seamless blend of graphic arts, technology, and psychology.
Brad Wieners

Intelligent design itself does not have any content.
George Gilder

The most powerful designs are always the result of a continuous process of simplification and refinement.
Kevin Mullet

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.
Jesse J. Garrett

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

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.
John Adams

An enterprise’s most vital assets lie in its design and other creative capabilities.
Kun-Hee Lee

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim Rohn

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.
Jesse James Garrett

Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.
Jeffery Veen

The level of detail and craft is something that’s inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.
Tadao Ando

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognise it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
David Herbert Lawrence

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Leo Tolstoy

Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don’t have two home supply centers touching each other.
Fred Davis

A machine for living in.
Le Corbusier

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say ‘this is where I want to be… I want this look.
Debbie Allen