Design quotes

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Nothing's impossible!

Design is thinking made visual.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

Designing a product is designing a relationship.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.

A camel is a horse designed by a committee.

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

People ignore design that ignores people.

It's fun to do the impossible.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

My personal creative process is to construct a big, tall scaffold of theory and evidence, and then once that is built I get on my hang-glider-of-intuition and jump off the top of the scaffold. I seem to need to do a lot of thinking and testing before I let myself fly. But fly I do, eventually. And the scaffold is about the flying, actually.

Calm seas never make skillful sailors.

Don't make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don't hesitate to make it beautiful.

Well done is better than well said.

No matter how much you plan you’re likely to get half wrong anyway. So don’t do the ‘paralysis through analysis’ thing. That only slows progress and saps morale.