Design Quotes

We are actors who show up for work in our sloppy gear, and we've got this extraordinary tailor. It's someone else who's done the design; someone else who's cut the suit; someone else who's measured it. Basically, your job is to just wear it.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Now I design what I want to wear, and it works that way.

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

Design is the courage and brilliance to cover an original and make it different.

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.

A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

My background was in graphic design, but when I was doing it, it was all hand-drawn stuff, not computers.

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

We have to design a health delivery system by actually talking to people and asking, 'What would make this service better for you?' As soon as you start asking, you get a flood of answers.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.