Marc Newson Quotes

A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.

Really great design is hard. Good is the enemy of great. Competent design is not too much of a stretch. But if you are trying to do something new, you have challenges on so many axes.

I think they've been baby bummers.

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

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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

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

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

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

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?'

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

Design is too important to be left to designers.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

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.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

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.

Design is everything.

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.

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

We don't do focus groups - that is the job of the designer.

Design in India is as important as Make in India.

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.

Design is a career where you learn creative decision making.

I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.