Top 100 Quotes About Good Design
#1. Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.
Dieter Rams
#3. It should look as if it has always been like that, as if Nature had made it that way.
That's good design.
Sepp Holzer
#4. Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.
Sailor Jerry
#5. Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.
Michael Graves
#6. I believe that the essence of good design is its ability to sustain long term integrity, to become classic and create a truly captivating home.
Candice Olson
#7. You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.
Dieter Rams
#8. Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate.
Paul Rand
#9. I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Brenda Laurel
#10. Users notice good design only when it is missing.
Suyog Ketkar
#11. I believe with religious intensity that good design is for everyone.
Russel Wright
#12. Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time,
Charles James
#13. Hey, I'm a good software engineer, but I'm not exactly known for my fashion sense. White socks and sandals don't translate to 'good design sense'.
Linus Torvalds
#14. Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
Edward Tufte
#15. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.
Douglas Martin
#17. The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
Paul Rand
#18. The late eighties was a good vintage. ID was not yet fashionable so a lot of people were doing it for the right reasons - to make good design, not become stars.
Leander Kahney
#19. Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.
Freeman Thomas
#20. Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.
Joe Sparano
#21. A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics.
Isaac Asimov
#22. Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Terence
#23. Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
Stephen Gardiner
#24. Good design isn't about making decisions for your users, it's about making those decisions irrelevant.
Rands
#25. Good design for the home should be universal. A house should be like old shoes, comfortable, like a good friend ... The Japanese aesthetic is important to me. Very organic. They have a sense of the weight of the thing: very balanced.
Elsa Peretti
#26. All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations.
Henry Petroski
#28. Good design can't fix broken business models.
Jeffrey Veen
#29. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing. - PAOLA ANTONELLI, curator of architecture and design, Museum of Modern Art
Daniel H. Pink
#30. 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
#31. Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand - not obscure, trendy, or stylish. A new language, visual or verbal, must be couched in a language that is already understood.
Ivan Chermayeff
#32. Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.
Massimo Vignelli
#34. It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.
Michael Graves
#35. Good design should follow looking into the products and reputation of clients who approach you, but this does not mean you have to follow them into bed.
Ivan Chermayeff
#36. Making good design is easy. It's polishing the half-assed stuff that takes time.
Stefan G. Bucher
#37. Good design doesn't stem from intuition, talent, or luck (although I'll take a smidgen of each). It comes from research and understanding.
Anonymous
#38. My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
Yves Behar
#40. Good design means as little design as possible.
Dieter Rams
#41. Good design makes a product understandable.
Dieter Rams
#43. Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
Hugh Newell Jacobsen
#44. Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.
Tim Brown
#45. There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
Diane Von Furstenberg
#47. Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.
Van Day Truex
#48. Good art inspires; Good design motivates.
Otl Aicher
#49. Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Dieter Rams
#50. Good design, when done well, should be invisible.
Jared Spool
#51. And each new invention of technology or interaction technique requires experimentation and study before the principles of good design can be fully integrated into practice
Anonymous
#52. Good design encourages a viewer to want to learn more.
Alexander Isley
#53. Good design is long-lasting! It avoids being fashionable and therefore never appears antiquated ...
Dieter Rams
#54. Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
Edward Tufte
#56. The difference between good design and great design is INTELLIGENCE
Tibor Kalman
#57. Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
Donald A. Norman
#58. Good design is a visual statement that maximizes the life goals of the people in a given culture (or, more realistically, the goals of a certain subset of people in the culture) that draws on a shared symbolic expression for the ordering of such goals.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#59. Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.
Paul Rand
#60. The people have a right supreme
To make their kings, for Kings are made for them.
All Empire is no more than Pow'r in Trust,
Which when resum'd, can be no longer just.
Successionm for the general good design'd,
In its own wrong a Nation cannot bind.
John Dryden
#61. Good design is a matter of discipline. It starts by looking at the problem and collecting all the available information about it. If you understand the problem, you have the solution. It's really more about logic than imagination.
Massimo Vignelli
#62. Aesthetic isn't simply about good design for good design's sake.
Noah Kerner
#63. After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.
Steve Jobs
#64. Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.
Hartmut Esslinger
#65. Accessible design is good design - it benefits people who don't have disabilities as well as people who do. Accessibility is all about removing barriers and providing the benefits of technology for everyone.
Steve Ballmer
#66. I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All of the people that made the spoon and the dishes and the vacuum cleaner didn't have microprocessors and stuff. You could do a good design back then.
John Maeda
#67. I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
Michael Graves
#68. Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible,
Donald A. Norman
#71. We are not peddlers of the fashionable. We believe that good design defies fashion, is truly innovative, eminently sensible, yet a source of inspiration to those who have the pleasure of living with it.
Arthur Erickson
#72. Once you think you have the formula for good design, you're dead. You cease to be a good designer at that point.
Michael Vanderbyl
#73. Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams
#74. Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.
George Nelson
#75. Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.
David Hockney
#77. The way I look at my job, I spend a lot of time trying to create the conditions for good design to happen and I don't get an opportunity to do a lot of hands on work.
Khoi Vinh
#78. Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.
Michael Graves
#80. A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design!
Neil Tierney
#81. Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.
Raymond Loewy
#82. A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
Dieter Rams
#83. The hope of good design lies in those designers who believe in what they do and will only do what they believeContrary to hearsay, it is possible to make a living that way.
Alexander Girard
#84. The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.
Harry Bertoia
#85. Good design is partially creativity and innovation, but primarily knowledge and awareness.
Chuck Green
#87. Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.
Terence Conran
#88. If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design.
Ralf Speth
#89. Above all, John Galliano menswear is all about good design. And men have been short-changed by good design for too long.
John Galliano
#90. Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all ... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson
#91. I employ case studies of failure into my courses, emphasizing that they teach us much more than studies of success. It is not that success stories cannot serve as models of good design or as exemplars of creative engineering. They can do that, but they cannot teach us how close to failure they are.
Henry Petroski
#92. This is an important rule: a good design is one that changes customer behavior for the better.
Eric Ries
#93. Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Marc Newson
#94. Discipline is "the systematic management of your life to prepare and position you for your divine design." Discipline and stewardship are one and the same. Discipline brings order to life and is absolutely required if we're going to be good stewards of the call to leadership.
Kent Ingle
#95. He looked like a butler dressed by his four-year-old daughter - a mishmash of good intentions and ill design. And there I was, an unshaven, rumpled page of discarded poetry, extending a hand and smiling, no doubt wolfishly.
Walter Mosley
#96. Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok
#97. In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.
Nancy Lancaster
#98. ...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you're doing, you'll do great.
Michael Bierut
#99. Design and style should work toward making you look good and feel good without a lot of effort so you can get on with the things that matter.
Donna Karan
#100. If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.
Brian Foote
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