“I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.” ProcessCompanyFashionDesignBuildingPlanningArchitectSimilaritySketchingDesign Process Author:John Katzman
“I'm really not for famous people who design a line for a company, when you know it's not really them creating it but a team of designers, especially when there are so many talented people who've taken the time to go and study fashion.” PeopleKnowsLinesCompanyStudyTakenTeamFashionDesignCreatingDesigner Author:Bonnie Wright
“You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training. There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight... Every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.” WayLittlesHas BeensMotivationalLawWinningBitsCompanyStepsCareersWeekDesignSpringTrainingBuiltGoldBrandsFirmSensationsOperaMedalGold MedalsGreat CompanyLaw Firms Author:Seth Godin
“We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.” TryingMadeCompanyDesignDecidedLibraryIncludingInsightComplicatedManageMade ItUselessDevicesSoftwareExpertiseIpodsHardwareItunesIndustrial Design Book:Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs
“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!” EndsProcessCompanyDesignFemaleInnovationConsumersEmployeeTargetUsersEmpoweredMarketplaceLikelihoodUtilizing Author:Indra Nooyi
“At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.” HelpingSportsProcessCompanyRiskTeamDesignCostProjectsConstructionInherentClientsConsulting Author:Roger Staubach
“When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain into trying to think about the little code and how you can maybe have one less line of code and a little bit more straightforward from the beginning to the answer. And you don't have time to think about companies and products and how would I build this. So Steve Jobs and I were a very necessary pair.” ThinkingWayTryingLittlesJobsLife IsBitsLinesAnswersBrainCompanyMinutesDesignProductsLittle BitCodePairsStraightforwardInventingTime To ThinkNeurons Author:Steve Wozniak
“Too many companies believe that all they must do is provide a 'neat' technology or some 'cool' product or, sometimes, just good, solid engineering. Nope. All of those are desirable (and solid engineering is a must), but there is much more to a successful product than that: understanding how the product is to be used, design, engineering, positioning, marketing, branding-all matter. It requires designing the Total User Experience.” BelieveSometimesMatterUsedUnderstandingCompanyTechnologySuccessfulDesignProductsMarketingUsersEngineeringBrandingDesirableNeatUser Experience Author:Donald A. Norman
“A good designer will actually design the company.” CompanyDesignDesignerGood Design Author:Donald A. Norman
“Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.” TryingImportantSimpleCompanyDesignFabricInnovativeAlways Trying Author:Nicola Formichetti
“Google has placed its faith in data, while Apple worships the power of design. This dichotomy made the two companies complementary. Apple would ship the phones and computers, while Google would provide Maps, Search, YouTube, and other web tools that made the devices more useful.” MadeTwoCompanyDesignComputerWorshipToolsPhonesShipsDataApplesMapsDevicesGoogleYoutubeDichotomyComplementaryGoogle Maps Author:Ben Parr
“I have a company that does design and animation, so obviously graffiti is definitely an intricate part of what we admire and respect in the art world.” WorldDoeArtCompanyDesignAdmireAnimationIntricateArt WorldGraffiti Author:Mick Ebeling
“Quality. That's the first word, the one word that comes to mind when I think of the books published by Abrams. In a world where so many companies are willing to cut corners, to do things the easy way in order to enhance the bottom line, it's gratifying to know that there's one company that obviously takes such pride in its finished product, one company that can always be counted on to design and produce a book that is, itself, as much a work of art as the illustrations on its pages.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayMindFirstsArtBookOrderEasyLinesQualityCompanyCuttingDesignProduceWillingProductsPridePagesBottomCornersFinishedWorks Of ArtBottom LineOne WordIllustrationEasy WayAbram Author:Stan Lee
“If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.” IfsFeelsFirstsLooksMadeGrowsCompanyDesignProductsFocusedFeaturesFeel BetterSonyIndustrial DesignSamsung Author:Jefferson Han
“We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.” BelieveWould BeJobsGrowthCompanyDesignProduceAmbitionFairsProfitStoresCeaseSustainabilityProfitableContradictoryNew Job Author:Karl-Johan Persson
“User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.” PeopleIfsKnowsInspirationalHas BeensWholeCompanyStudyDesignBreatheBoardsOver ItUsersUser ExperienceStarting A BusinessUndervalued Author:Evan Williams
“Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual activity that produces material artefacts is no different fundamentally from the one that prescribes remedies for a sick patient or the one that devises a new sales plan for a company or a social welfare policy for a state.” DifferentStatesActionCoursesSocialCompanySituationPlansPolicyDesignProduceMaterialsActivityIntellectualSickPatientWelfareDesignerEngineersRemedySocial WelfareArtefacts Author:Herbert Simon
“But just [proposing the standard] puts companies on notice that if you're looking to construct a new natural-gas or coal facility, you really need to pay attention to these. This is what they should be designing new facilities toward as soon as this proposal hits the streets.” IfsNeedsShouldNaturalPayAttentionCompanyStreetsDesignStandardsPay AttentionGasCoalConstructsProposalFacilityNatural Gas Author:Gina McCarthy
“There are three things you need to do as a CEO-founder. Think strategically, drive design, and drive technology. Some people who are really good at one can build a pretty foundational company. Most people who are very successful are good at two. But Jack is the only person in the Valley I've met who's all three. He's a first-rate strategist, a first-rate designer, and a first-rate technologist.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFirstsPersonsTwoThreeCompanyTechnologySuccessfulDesignMetsRateDesignerValleysFoundersCeoThree ThingsStrategist Author:Keith Rabois
“The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.” YearsLittlesCompanyFourDesignProjectsTrackFour YearsTypicalIbmLarge Companies Author:Bill Gates
“In companies whose wealth is intellectual capital, networks, rather than hierarchies, are the right organizational design.” WealthCompanyDesignIntellectualHierarchyOrganizationalIntellectual Capital Book:Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization Source: Intellectual Capital: The new wealth of organization