Design Critique Quotes

I have a very Socratic approach - I pummel the designers with questions, so when I get them to step back from the work and look at it with me, they'll eventually see what I see, coming to it fresh and unencumbered. That's always very gratifying because they feel a responsibility and an ownership of a solution.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

I'm hands-on with everything. I approve the designs of everything we do because that's my brand that people are buying. I want it to look good.

I'm experimenting in public. At the design grad schools, these are people sitting around in groups, putting their work on a wall, analyzing it and putting it back in a drawer. I think there's little risk in that.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

I'm useless at staring at a piece of white paper. But if you put a piece of white paper with a black line on it in front of me, I'll say no that black line should be red and it should go this way or that way.

Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise.

It's one of the curses of designing that when you look at anything, you're constantly thinking, Why? Why - why was it designed like that, and not like this?

I look at the world and peer into products and think, 'What's wrong with these products?'

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

I think, as a designer, what you have to do is challenge yourself to do what you do, but better.

Open the hood of a car and it will tell you something about the people who designed it, is just one of many phrases I’m tortured by.