"GOOD
DESIGN IS
OBVIOUS.
GREAT
DESIGN IS
TRANSPARENT."
- JOE SPARANO Edit
"DESIGN
IS WHERE
SCIENCE
AND ART
BREAK EVEN."
- ROBIN MATHEW Edit
"PEOPLE
IGNORE
DESIGN
THAT
IGNORES
PEOPLE."
- FRANK CHIMERO Edit
"Everything is designed. Few things are designed well."
- Brian Reed Edit
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
- Edward Tufte
Edit
Math is easy; design is hard.
- Jeffrey Veen
Edit
"A camel is a horse designed by a committee."
- Sir Alec Issigonis Edit
"Technology over technique produces emotionless design."
- Daniel Mall Edit
"The best design tool is a long eraser with a pencil at one end.
- Marty Neumeier Edit
"Good, fast, or cheap… pick two."
- Old Adage Edit
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
- Leonardo da Vinci Edit
"Photoshop is a privilege, not a right."
- Dork Tower Edit
"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
- Pablo Picasso Edit
"If the bones don't work, you've got a pile of skin."
- Samuel Antupit Edit
"Done is beautiful."
- Frank Chimero Edit
"It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better."
- Jonathan Ive Edit
"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
- Pablo Picasso Edit
"A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something."
- Frank Capra Edit
"This is the web. Fix it."
- Luke Wroblewski Edit
"Good design means never having to say 'Click Here.'"
- Shawn Leslie Edit
"Calvin: You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.
Hobbes: What mood is that?
Calvin: Last-minute panic."
- Calvin & Hobbes Edit
"The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong."
- Marty Neumeier Edit
"Design is in everything we make, but it's also between those things. It’s a mix of craft, science, storytelling, propaganda, and philosophy."
- Erik Adigard Edit
"Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work."
- Hans Hoger Edit