Charles Eames Quotes

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

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.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

Design is an unknown.

Design is people.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

Often the most important moment in the design process is figuring out what the right question is.

Design is an iterative process. One idea often builds on another.

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

When you say 'design,' everybody thinks of magazine pages. So it's an emotive word. Everybody thinks it's how something looks, whereas for me, design is pretty much everything.

The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program.

That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

It's incredibly exciting to know people are using and living with the things I create.

I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake.

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

Creating something is all about problem-solving.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.