Design Quotes

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

It's not what you look at that matters. It's what you see.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I always wanted to be a web designer, or as we called them back then, a spider.

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

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I did a search for "attacking a tiger" and got nothing. Then I did a search for "attacking cougar" and got totally different result.

Find a place where you can tinker alone.

To design well, you need to match the context in which you contribute to the context in which you consume.

If you're in tech, you can find artistry in what you're doing. Being creative with your tech is where success lies.

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

Don't advertise. Make things that remind them that they are human.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

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.

Creativity is to discover a question that has never been asked.

The love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.

Apple has always tried to create an emotional response. They’ve designed the software to make you feel a certain way. They use terms like ‘magical’ and ‘beautiful.’ The way Apple goes about controlling its ecosystem feels very much like the way the church controlled content.

Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication