The world is just Amazing.

Practice safe design: Use a concept.

– Petrula Vrontikis

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

– Steve Jobs

Design should never say, “Look at me.” It should always say, “Look at this.”

– David Craib

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

- Joe Sparano

Design is where science and art break even.

- Robin Mathew

Math is easy; design is hard.

- Jeffrey Veen

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

Bad design is smoke, while good design is a mirror.

– Juan-Carlos Fernàndez

People ignore design that ignores people.

– Frank Chimero

There is no design without discipline. There is no discipline without intelligence.

– Massimo Vignelli

Don’t design for everyone. It’s impossible. All you end up doing is designing something that makes everyone unhappy.

– Leisa Reichelt

Only when the design fails does it draw attention to itself; when it succeeds, it’s invisible.

– John D. Berry

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

– Steve Jobs

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

– Raymond Loewy

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

– Sir Alec Issigonis

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

– Douglas Adams

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

– Milton Glaser

Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.

– David Lewis

Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.

– Marty Neumeier

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

– Jeffery Veen

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.

– Tate Linden

Design is the intermediary between information and understanding.

– Richard Grefé

Design is intelligence made visible.

– Don Newgren

The most popular typefaces are the easiest to read; their popularity has made them disappear from conscious cognition. It becomes impossible to tell if they are easy to read because they are commonly used, or if they are commonly used because they are easy to read.

– Zuzana Licko

Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.

– Chris Pullman

There are three responses to a piece of design – yes, no, and WOW! Wow is the one to aim for.

~Milton Glaser

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

– Frank Lloyd Wright

Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.

– Mieke Gerritzen

People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. 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

To say that something is designed means it has intentions that go beyond its function. Otherwise it’s just planning.

– Ayse Birsel

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

– Robert L. Peters

Being a famous designer is like being a famous dentist.

– Noreen Morioka

Design trends online change more often than the wind, and slightly less often than my socks.

– Suleiman Leadbitter

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 Exupéry

Good design is good business.

– Thomas J. Watson Jr.

Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because that idea wasn’t theirs.

– Frank Chimero

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

– Edward Tufte

Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

~Fabien Barral

It is easy to fail when designing an interactive experience. Designers fail when they do not know the audience, integrate the threads of content and context, welcome the public properly, or make clear what the experience is and what the audience’s role in it will be.

– Edwin Schlossberg

A well-designed text will seem weightless after a time; the initial feel of the book fades away as the mind becomes engrossed in the words.

– Mandy Brown

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

– Scott Adams

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

– Jon Franklin

Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.

– Brian Reed

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. He new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.

– Paul Rand

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.

– Tom Peters

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

– Victor Papanek

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an “information architect” and only use Helvetica.

– David Carson

I love the comment, “You must love designing for a living.” At that point I usually start to laugh or break into uncontrollable tears.

– Andrew Lewis

Designing a product is designing a relationship.

– Steve Rogers

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

– Paola Antonelli

Technology over technique produces emotionless design.

– Daniel Mall