“Less, but better.”
Dieter Rams
MinimalismShort Quotes
Design Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · DESIGN
Design Quotes
Read 200 of the best design quotes from Steve Jobs, Dieter Rams, Charles Eames, Paul Rand, Milton Glaser, Jony Ive and more on simplicity, function, creativity and great design.
“Indifference towards people and the reality in which they live is actually the one and only cardinal sin in design.”
Dieter Rams
Human CentredResponsibility
“It's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.”
Jony Ive
InnovationExcellence
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible.”
Don Norman
Invisible DesignUX Design
“Good design, when it's done well, becomes invisible. It's only when it's done poorly that we notice it.”
Jared Spool
Invisible DesignUX Design
“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
Joe Sparano
Great DesignSimplicity
“Users spend most of their time on other sites.”
Jakob Nielsen
UX DesignWeb Design
“Design is the silent ambassador of your brand.”
Paul Rand
BrandingGraphic Design
“Don't try to be original, just try to be good.”
Paul Rand
QualityAdvice
“Less isn't more; just enough is more.”
Milton Glaser
BalanceMinimalism
“Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.”
Massimo Vignelli
Timeless DesignStyle
“The life of a designer is a life of fight against the ugliness.”
Massimo Vignelli
DesignersBeauty
“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”
Saul Bass
BeautyPassion
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
Charles Eames
PurposeDefinition
“Never delegate understanding.”
Charles Eames
UnderstandingShort Quotes
“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts.”
Ray Eames
FunctionDurability
“Between two products equal in price, function and quality, the better looking will outsell the other.”
Raymond Loewy
AestheticsBusiness
“Ugliness does not sell.”
Raymond Loewy
Industrial DesignShort Quotes
“Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
William Morris
InteriorsSimplicity
“Complicating is easy, simplifying is difficult.”
Bruno Munari
SimplicityDesign Thinking
“Form ever follows function.”
Louis Sullivan
FunctionDesign Principles
“Less is more.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
MinimalismShort Quotes
“Less is a bore.”
Robert Venturi
PostmodernismWit
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.”
Charles Mingus
SimplicityCreativity
“The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.”
Hans Hofmann
SimplicityClarity