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Quotes about Design

Luck is the residue of design.
- Branch Rickey, US baseball administrator (1881 - 1965)

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, US computer engineer & industrialist (1955 - )

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Steve Jobs, US computer engineer & industrialist (1955 - )

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. 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, US computer engineer & industrialist (1955 - )

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.
- Milton Glaser

CP Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
- Ivan Chermayeff

To dismiss front-end design as mere ‘icing’ is to jeopardize the success of any site.
- Curt Cloninger

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.
- Paul Rand