Raymond Loewy Quotes

I ended up going to do a matches program at the state for industrial design. And from there, I got hired at IDEO to joint their design team there - and basically, you are starting as an industrial designer to design products - and then kept asking the question, 'What else can design accomplish? What else can design do?'

Designers are by nature more inquisitive, more connected. They dig a little deeper in terms of insights. They turn those insights into innovation. That connection to the consumer is absolutely critical in driving innovation. It’s critical that design isn’t subjugated to the back room as a short order cook for marketing or for merchandising or sales. It has to be up front.

Design in India is as important as Make in India.

A good designer will actually design the company.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

Design is a way of life, a point of view. It involves the whole complex of visual communications: talent, creative ability, manual skill, and technical knowledge. Aesthetics and economics, technology and psychology are intrinsically related to the process.

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

The best design work is really done when you spend more time with people, when you have the opportunity to be of the same mindset and the same incentives as the founder of the business.

Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of design.

In design-led organizations, design permeates every initiative and expression. It's embedded in the culture.

We have lots to learn in India when it comes to design, and that includes me! I'm constantly learning; that never stops.

My role is to find strategic insights as to where design can have the most business impact. A designer can bring a viewpoint of not just aesthetics, but economics and usage.

Good design is good business.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer. It's unfair to ask people who don't have a sense of the opportunities of tomorrow from the context of today to design.

Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

Business people don't need to understand designers better. They need to be designers.

The design industry is really pathetic.

Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.

People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Design is a response to a specific problem. You are given a problem to solve, and then you let the problem itself tell you what your solution is.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.