01"Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works." — Steve Jobs
02"Make it simple, but significant." — Don Draper
03"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent." — Joe Sparano
04"Everything is design. Everything." — Paul Rand
05"Design is intelligence made visible." — Alina Wheeler
06"The details are not the details. They make the design." — Charles Eames
07"Less, but better." — Dieter Rams
08"Form follows function." — Louis Sullivan
09"Design is thinking made visual." — Saul Bass
10"If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design." — Ralf Speth
11"A user interface is like a joke. If you have to explain it, it's not that good." — Martin LeBlanc
12"Design is where science and art break even." — Robin Mathew Rajan
13"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." — Leonardo da Vinci
14"The function of design is letting design function." — Micha Commeren
15"People ignore design that ignores people." — Frank Chimero
16"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future." — Robert L. Peters
17"Design adds value faster than it adds costs." — Joel Spolsky
18"Design is the silent ambassador of your brand." — Paul Rand
19"Stop, look around, then design." — Stefan Sagmeister
20"Don't make me think." — Steve Krug
21"Good design is good business." — Thomas Watson Jr.
22"Make it work, make it right, make it fast." — Kent Beck
23"Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems." — Tim Brown
24"Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable." — Donna Karan
25"Design is so simple, that's why it's so complicated." — Paul Rand
26"Practice safe design: use a concept." — Petrula Vrontikis
27"Design is intelligence made visible." — Alina Wheeler
28"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design." — Charles Eames
29"You can't always be original, but you can always be authentic." — Aaron Draplin
30"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them." — Ernest Hemingway (often quoted in design)
31"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please." — Mark Twain
32"Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." — Francis Ford Coppola
33"Design is choosing." — Edward Tufte
34"Above all, do no harm." — Hippocrates (as applied to UX)
35"Design is where the rubber meets the road." — Tim Brown
36"Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood." — Marshall McLuhan
37"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." — Douglas Adams
38"You don't have to be a graphic designer to see how good design is. You just have to see what you like." — Massimo Vignelli
39"Have no fear of perfection — you'll never reach it." — Salvador Dalí
40"Make the invisible visible." — Saul Bass
41"Design is so much more than what you see." — Tobias Frere-Jones
42"Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained." — Ferdinand Porsche
43"Good design is good business." — Thomas Watson Jr.
44"The role of design is to make the world a more thoughtful place." — Naoto Fukasawa
45"Constraints can be inspiring." — Jonathan Ive
46"Less is only more when more is no good." — Frank Lloyd Wright
47"Design is to design a design to produce a design." — John Heskett
48"Design is the conscious effort to impose a meaningful order." — Victor Papanek
49"Design is a journey of discovery." — Charles Eames
50"Design without discipline is anarchy, an exercise of irresponsibility." — Massimo Vignelli
51"Type is a beautiful group of letters, not a group of beautiful letters." — Matthew Carter