Design Quotes

Sometimes time spent reinventing the wheel results in a revolutionary new rolling device. But sometimes it just amounts to time spent reinventing the wheel.

~ Steve Krug

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

~ Charles Givens

If automating everything makes people lazier and lazier, and laziness leads to stupidity, which it does for most people, judging by the current content circulating the social networks everywhere, except North Korea, where they don’t have any internet to speak of - at some point the Japanese robots, for which a market niche is currently being developed, with no concerns on how they should be designed to act in society or outside it - will have no choice, but to take everything over, to preserve us from ourselves…

~ Will Advise

You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.

~ Debasish Mridha

When typography is on point, words become images.

~ Shawn Lukas

You seem to forget that the sun must set. You knew perfectly well that I would not be with you long enough. Still, you weep and cry and ask God ‘Why’ as if it were some kind of surprise. Why? Because love changes everything. Love’s the surprise.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Copywriting is a design muse, it carves a beautiful masterpiece in an imaginative way.

~ Sharen Song

I faced people from all walks of business who fully disregarded design (though they were completely influenced by it). I also met fine artists who drowned in their own work and the dense creative universe in their minds.Then I met designers. And instantly fell in love. Let me tell you why.Designers are familiar with critiques. They not only tolerate them but actively look out for them. They honestly believe in iterations and learn to edit down their work. They embrace simplicity and create beauty based on requirements other than their own. Design education teaches you to run away from assumptions and to have the stomach to scrap your work often.I’m bringing this up because it’s time to bridge the gap between design and business.

~ Laura Busche

So, you don’t have money to invest in your brand? You do have money for damage control, right?Here’s the thing: anyone can make your brand inferior in your absence.

~ Laura Busche

Research conquers doubt. It aligns everyone around the incontestable. Research is the key to clarity—in startups, enterprises, and life itself.

~ Laura Busche

Brands play in an exciting sandbox of symbolic meanings.

~ Laura Busche

People change, and so do their aspirations, and so should brands.

~ Laura Busche

Make sure you test your brand story’s recipe with whomever you’re cooking it for.

~ Laura Busche

Lean brands are the result of continually testing assumptions.

~ Laura Busche

Do everything in your power to make customers go confidently in the direction of their purchase intention.

~ Laura Busche

Brand and product don’t compete. Brand is product, and everything else conforming to the unique story that consumers create when they think of you.

~ Laura Busche

Products shouldn’t just work well, they must unfold well.

~ Laura Busche

People relate to people, and if your brand feels like people, they’ll relate to you, too.

~ Laura Busche

Positioning is finding the right parking space inside the consumer’s mind and going for it before someone else takes it.

~ Laura Busche

Your brand story’s “happily ever after” involves open wallets.

~ Laura Busche

All human aspirations are opportunities for brands to build relationships.

~ Laura Busche

Everything and everyone represents at least one brand. Therefore, to brand or not to brand is not even a question.

~ Laura Busche

In today’s saturated marketplace, you’ll go nowhere selling a “bunch of features.” We are in the business of disrupting the market with brands that matter.

~ Laura Busche

What is the “Once upon a time” of your brand story? Ask yourself this: “How does what I’m building help consumers close the gap between who they are today and who they want to be tomorrow?

~ Laura Busche

God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Your life success is well designed by the mental transformation you experience. That mental transformation guides you to construct powerful decisions. You can't live life so well without mental make-ups.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Designer of information superhighways need to take the occasional stroll down memory lane.

~ Geoffrey Bowker

With a little heartache; Gone with the time, Are certain memories, Intricately designed.To call & narrate A story of blissful sunshine.

~ Somya Kedia

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

~ Morinosuke Kawaguchi

In Japan, so many emoticons have been created that it’s reasonable to assume Japanese appreciate their convenience more than anyone else.

~ Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Girly’ products can spur Japan’s growth in this century every bit as much as, if not more than, the ‘manly’ technologies.

~ Morinosuke Kawaguchi

Very often, what is meant to be a stepping stone turns out to be a slab of wet cement that will harden around your foot if you do not take the next step soon enough.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

As part of an effort to prod college seniors to get tetanus shots, a group of students was given a lecture meant to educate them about the dangers of tetanus and the importance of getting inoculated against it. A large majority of those students reported that they were convinced and planned to get their shots, but in the end only 3 percent got them. Bu another group of students, who were presented with the same lecture, had a 28 percent inoculation rate. The difference? The second group was given a map of the campus and asked to plan their route to the health center and pick a date and time to go. Sometimes, you see, motivation isn't our problem. Rather, we need to identify life's everyday mental obstacles - regret, fatigue, overconfidence, fear, to name just four - and put ourselves into position to hurdle them.

~ Gary Belsky

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

~ Hillman Curtis

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

~ Ernst F. Schumacher

...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you’re doing, you’ll do great.

~ Michael Bierut

Writers express their thoughts through words, designers express their hearts through designs that speak words.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

~ Laird Barron

When the image is new, the world is new.

~ Gaston Bachelard

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

~ Robert Bringhurst