Ian Schrager Quotes

Good design is good business.

Good design is good business.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Good design doesn't date.

Accessible design is good design.

Great design... you won't have a business today without great design.

Design has always been at the heart of our business.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

I don't think it ever does any harm in any business to feel that there is someone there who cares about it. If you look at any business, fashion being the most obvious, the aura, or the reality of the designer, is part of what creates it. It's true in luxury goods stores and in good food stores. It leaves a palpable sense that someone cares.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

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

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

My focus is incredibly narrow. I can't talk with any authority other than design and development of product.

Good design makes a product understandable.

I think I've done a good job in the industry from the standpoint of employee morale and customer satisfaction, and as an innovative thinker in tech.

Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.

I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.

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?'

Great design alone isn't going to yield the results investors are expecting.

Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly, it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it, and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me.