Best Design Work Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

“Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them.”

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Author:Fred Brooks

“I wanted to feel good about the way I looked. I didn't understand why style had to be sacrificed for sports technology. I found when going to the gym women were wearing their own tees, without the technology. I started to think, does it make you run faster if you wear that terrible color or sweat less if you wear that horrible fabric? And I challenged it, and the answers were not there to why we were being given poor design work. It was something I wanted to bring to women's wardrobes.”

“First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.”

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Author:Nate Berkus

“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Usually when you start the characters, the first thing is the script. Your design work is about telling the story. It's later that casting comes into play, but it's a huge component.”

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Author:Alexandra Byrne

“I have half a dozen designers who work for me, they 'realise' most of the design work, and I act as the design director and the main point of client contact on each project.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“I'm not sure about my design work every time.”

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Author:Michael Bierut

“I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.”

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Author:Robert Rodriguez

“Don't worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they stop.”

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Author:Jeffrey Zeldman

“You can't do better design with a computer, but you can speed up your work enormously.”

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Author:Wim Crouwel

“Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.”

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Author:Barbara Kruger

“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”

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Author:Adrian Forty

“Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture.”

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Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).”

“Design is all about relationships. Unfortunately, many designers don’t fully appreciate this. Some of the best design work I’ve ever done was drinking coffee or beers with engineers, marketing people, and business development hustlers. And I wholeheartedly mean design work.”

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Author:Daniel Burka

“In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.”

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Author:Nils Bohlin

“Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.”

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Book:Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Source: Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.”