Raymond Loewy Quotes

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

Good design doesn't date.

Good design is good business.

Accessible design is good design.

Anyone with a computer and a design program can create a page layout. But unless you're trained in design, it won't look very good and it won't communicate very well.

We always correct people who say, 'You're trying to make this look better.' Well yes, we want it to look better, but that's easy. The look and the function are one and the same. They are not separate. It looks good because it functions beautifully. That message is very hard.

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

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

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

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

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

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

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.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

Good design is good business.

Good design makes a product understandable.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

Attractive things work better.

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

I love well-designed products that combine form and functionality.

The key to industrial leadership is technology and design; of the two, technology is quantifiable and design is not. Technological improvements might make your product worth another $20. If you design something beautiful, what is that worth? It's worth whatever people will pay for it.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.