David Chipperfield 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.

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

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

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

When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

I knew you were a badass," continued Adrian. "But I didn't realize just how much until I saw you dropping guardians out there." "Does that mean you're going to be nicer to me?" I teased. "I'm already nice to you," he said loftily. "Do you know how badly I want a cigarette right now? But no. I manfully suffer through nicotine withdrawal—all for you.

"Authenticity" doesn't mean much to me. I just want "good", in the sense of well-designed, well-constructed, long-lasting garments. My interest in military clothing stems from that. It's not about macho, playing soldiers, anything militaristic. It's the functionality, the design-solutions, the durability. Likewise workwear.

Good design is good business.

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.

Reproductive freedom means economic freedom. And that's what this debate is about.

Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

A story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.

What users want is convenience and results.

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably preoccupied with architectural meaning. Where else would a department store include in its advertisements the name of the architect who created it, or a newspaper property section throw in a scholarly exposition of theoretical design?

Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Good design means as little design as possible.

Design means being good, not just looking good.

I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?