Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Quotes

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.

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.

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

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.

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.

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

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

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.

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Design is people.

When I'm doing kitchen planning as well as bathroom design, I try to walk through the day with the homeowner. If we're talking about a kitchen, it will be: So, we are walking in with the groceries. When we are taking them out of the car, where will they go? What is the distance to fridge, to pantry?

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

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

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

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.

Interior design is a business of trust.

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?'

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.