Designer Quotes – Insights and Inspiration from Design Icons

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

Creativity is intelligence having fun. – Albert Einstein

Design is the silent ambassador of your brand. – Paul Rand

Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent. – Joe Sparano

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci

Design is thinking made visual. – Saul Bass

Design is the intermediary between information and understanding. – Hans Hofmann

The details are not the details. They make the design. – Charles Eames

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future. – Robert L. Peters

Design is the poetry of objects. – Vico Magistretti

Design is not just what you see, but how it makes you feel. – Jonathan Ive

Design is intelligence made visible. – Alina Wheeler

Design is the difference between products that are sold and ones that are loved. – Dieter Rams

Your design should tell a story and evoke emotions. – Nigel Cross

Design is not making beauty; beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. – Louis Kahn

Design is a solution to a problem. Art is a question to a problem. – John Maeda

Design is a journey of discovery, a process of refining. – Don Norman

Design creates order out of chaos. – Paula Scher

Designer Quotes – Insights and Inspiration from Design Icons part 2

Design shapes the way we live, work, and interact with the world. – Yves Behar

Design is the bridge between technology and humanity. – Lorraine Justice

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks. – Ferdinand Porsche

Design is not just beautiful, it has to work. – Stefan Sagmeister

Design is not a single object or result, it is a process of continuous improvement. – Ray Eames

Design is where science and art break even. – Robin Mathew

Design is not about making things look pretty, it’s about making things better. – Karim Rashid

Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up. – Tate Linden

Design is inherently optimistic. It believes in a better future. – Debbie Millman

A designer knows they have achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Design is the search for a magical balance between business and art. – Valerie Pettis

Design is the art of creating value for others. – Edwin Catmull

Design is the meeting point between form and function. – Bernhard Groves-Roth

Design is a solution that brings beauty and order to chaos. – Bill Moggridge

Design is an opportunity to create experiences that delight and inspire. – Aarron Walter

Design is about making the ordinary extraordinary. – Scott Thomas

Design is like a puzzle, where all the pieces have to fit perfectly. – Jonathan Ive

Design is the process of turning dreams into reality. – Elsie De Wolfe

Design is a form of self-expression that can change the world. – Paula Scher

Design is the language that speaks to the conscious mind. – Milton Glaser

Design is not just about aesthetics, it’s about solving problems. – Don Norman

Design is innovation in action. – Karim Rashid

Design is an attitude, a way of life. – Massimo Vignelli

Design is a reflection of culture and society. – Yves Behar

Design is the ultimate combination of logic and intuition. – Nigel Cross

Design is the key that opens the door to a better world. – Lorraine Justice

Design is the ultimate exercise in empathy. – Paul Bennett