Design Importance Quotes

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.

The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

The details are not the details. They make the design.

Design is important because chaos is so hard.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

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.

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

Architecture trumps licensing any time.

Design in India is as important as Make in India.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

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

Design is too important to be left to designers.

I've been looking at the iPod- the Apple iPod. One of the interesting things about the iPod, one of the things that people love most about it is not the technology; it's the box it comes in.

As a visual person, I love a creative resume. Putting in a little effort on the design side will show that you care about making things look good.

Mediocre design provably wastes the world's resources, corrupts the environment, affects international competitiveness. Design is important.

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.

The hiring of Phil Messina, the production designer, was a big decision. He's so gifted, and his ideas were always so smart and rooted in American history and architecture. Nothing feels like it's not us, or couldn't be us, and I think that's very important.

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

Collaborations are incredibly important in design.

You have to have great design to be competitive in today’s markets.

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

Many people are going to use [Beijing National Stadium], which makes it more meaningful. If we don't design it, somebody else has to design it.