Quotes that represents my beliefs as a Designer:
“From the enlightenment of design comes the wisdom of perception” – Ney Pimentel
“Good design is good business.” – Thomas Watson, Jr.
“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.” – Marty Neumeier
“A graphic designer’s value is dependent on clients’ design literacy.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Good design is the most important way to differentiate ourselves from our competitors.” – Yun Jong Yong
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.” – Steve Jobs
“Design is art optimized to meet objectives.” – Shimon Shmueli
“What works good is better than what looks good. Because what works good lasts.” – Ray Eames
“I didn’t get into design to be an artist. To me, an artist creates things to evoke emotion. Being a designer goes a step further than that, not only trying to evoke emotion but trying to make a reaction. It is very objective-driven, and that’s what makes it interesting.” – Mike Davidson
“Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is creating something you believe in.” – Chuck Green
“Your products run for election every day and good design is critical to winning the campaign.” – Procter & Gamble
“Design has allowed us to stand out; to look different and show that difference boldly.” – Joe Mansueto
“Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.” – Thomas Watson Jr.
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
- Charles Eames
“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
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.” – Bruno Munari
“Design, in the end, is about creating better things for people. Along the way, it can generate better profits as well.” – Bruce Nussbaum
“Design adds value faster than it adds cost.” – Joel Spolsky
“I think design covers so much more than the aesthetic. Design is fundamentally more. Design is usability. It is Information Architecture. It is Accessibility. This is all design.” – Mark Boulton
“Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.” – Robert L. Peters
“Good design must be defined by appropriateness to audience and goals, and by its effectiveness, not by its adherence to Swiss design or the number of awards it wins.” – Drew Davies
“Good design goes to heaven; bad design goes everywhere.” – Mieke Gerritzen
“The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural, and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.” – Richard Saul Wurman
“Design is not the narrow application of formal skills, it is a way of thinking.” – Chris Pullman
“Design is a means toward accomplishing the end goals of serving markets and generating profits. Furthermore, design is an element in social responsibility. Good design allows “form to complement performance.” The way things look is not irrelevant to the way things work: how they work is how they should look.” – Thomas F. Schutte
“Design is easy. All you do is stare at the screen until drops of blood form on your forehead.” – Marty Neumeier
“Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.” – Steve Jobs
No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.” – Adrian Forty
“Most [clients] expect experience design to be a discrete activity, solving all their problems with a single functional specification or a single research study. It must be an ongoing effort, a process of continually learning about users, responding to their behaviors, and evolving the product or service.” – Dan Brown
Designers have a dual duty; contractually to their clients and morally to the later users and recipients of their work.” – Hans Höger
“Design is that competitive advantage that sets a company apart in the global market. Within the global economy, the highest performing companies see design as a strategic asset. It becomes the core to their businesses. For those companies, design is more than aesthetics—it’s competitive intellectual property.” – Monika Conway
“Design is communication. Great design is rational. Rational design is filtered communication.” – Thierry Loa
“Design is the bridge that brings the business strategy to life. It can build intangible brand value for a business, so the business is worth more. We all know that the intangible brand value of Coke far outweighs the value of its tangible assets.” – Geoff Suvalko
“People ignore design that ignores people.” – Frank Chimero
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” – Paul Rand
“From the enlightenment of design comes the wisdom of perception” – Ney Pimentel
“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
“Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” – Fabien Barral
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.” – Brian Reed
“To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.” – Milton Glaser
“Design is the bridge that brings the business strategy to life. It can build intangible brand value for a business, so the business is worth more. We all know that the intangible brand value of Coke far outweighs the value of its tangible assets.” – Geoff Suvalko
“A design isn’t finished until somebody is using it.” – Brenda Laurel
“Good graphic design solutions to communication problems can improve the flow of information in society and, therefore, substantially and positively affect education, social well-being and the daily enjoyment of life. In addition, good graphic design solutions can also have a positive economic impact. ” – Jorge Frascara