Paola Antonelli:
"Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They're able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand." (AZQuotes.com)
Naoto Fukasawa:
"The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior." (AZQuotes.com)
Kenya Hara:
"The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it." (AZQuotes.com)
Thomas Heatherwick:
"At the root of everything I do is a fascination with ideas - what ideas are for, what jobs they do." (AZQuotes.com)
Hugh Newell Jacobsen:
"Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why." (AZQuotes.com)
Raymond Loewy:
"The main goal is not to complicate the already difficult life of the consumer." (AZQuotes.com)
Ellen Lupton:
"To say a grid is limiting is to say that language is limiting, or typography is limiting. It is up to us to use these media critically or passively." (AZQuotes.com)
David McCandless:
"Data is the new soil, because for me, it feels like a fertile, creative medium. Over the years, online, we've laid down a huge amount of information and data..." (AZQuotes.com)
David McCandless:
"Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible, but still they preserve the essence of the subject." (AZQuotes.com)
Peter Morville:
"Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the web. You can't use what you can't find." (AZQuotes.com)
Jakob Nielsen:
"Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen based on earlier experience." (Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design, 2011)
Donald A. Norman:
"Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions." (Living with Complexity, 2010)
Donald A. Norman:
"When you have trouble with things - whether its figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer and electronics industries - its not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer." (Design of Everyday Things, 2002)
John Pawson:
"Minimalism is not defined by what is not there, but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced." (AZQuotes.com)
Dieter Rams:
"Good design makes a product understandable." (AZQuotes.com)
Paul Rand:
"Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex ability, manual skill and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process." (AZQuotes.com)
Paul Rand:
"Design is the method of putting form and content together." (Quoted in Learning PHP Design Patterns by William Sanders)
Stefan Sagmeister:
"To be a good designer, you would need to have deep and far reaching interests outside of the profession." (AZQuotes.com)
Paul Scher:
"The goal of design is to raise the expectation of what design can be." (AZQuotes.com)
Jared Spool:
"Good design, when its done well, becomes invisible. Its only when its done poorly that we notice it." (AZQuotes.com)
Philippe Stark:
"Design is a tool to help the tribe." (AZQuotes.com)
Richard Saul Wurman:
"The organization of information actually creates new information." (Speech at IA Summit in Phenix, Arizona, 2010)
