Product Design Quotes

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

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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

  Paul Rand

  Art, Simple, Design

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• Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential.

  Thomas Watson, Jr.

  Design, Achieve, Maximum

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• A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Success, Writing

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood

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• Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

  Jonathan Ive

  Simplicity, Design, Purpose

  "The Chasm of Dissonance: Explaining the 'dis-connects' that seem to haunt our world (Including the ones named Trump and Clinton)" by Michael Lissack, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2016.

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• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Design

  "Steve Jobs Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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• As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

  Jef Raskin

  Educational, Design, Experience

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• 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

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

  Milton Glaser

  Mean, Design, Masters

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• Simplicity is not the goal. It is the by-product of a good idea and modest expectations.

  Paul Rand

  Inspirational, Ideas, Goal

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• We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.

  Douglas Crockford

  Long, People, Design

  Douglas Crockford (2008). “JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts”, p.99, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures.

  Jeffrey Veen

  Ideas, Design, Normalcy

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• The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

  Jonathan Ive

  Simple, Design, Absence

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Creativity, Thinking

  "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.

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• Very often design is the most immediate way of defining what products become in people's minds.

  Jonathan Ive

  Philosophical, People, Design

  "Jonathan Ive: Apple of the iMac". Interview with Caroline Frost, news.bbc.co.uk. January 18, 2002.

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• 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

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed.

  Debi Thomas

  Engineering, Design, Enjoyed

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• Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

  Michael Graves

  Design, Stories, Narrative

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• To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

  Greg Lynn

  Small Rooms, Issues, Design

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• We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

  Jonathan Ive

  Jobs, Focus, Design

  "Sir Jonathan Ive: The iMan cometh". Interview with Mark Prigg, www.standard.co.uk. March 12, 2012.

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