Design Process Quotes

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I realized mechanical engineering doesn't much lend itself to missionary work.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

And, of course, I'm constantly energized by designing courses around the world.

If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe.

When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

I seem to always start a collection by designing outerwear and jackets.

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

Creativity is the process that gives life to a new product.

After months of preparation working with a stylist who explained to me how a fashion house runs and the process of making a dress, I developed a respect for the patience and skill it takes to design these dresses.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

One of the things that is particularly precious about working at Apple is that many of us on the design team have worked together for 15-plus years, and there's a wonderful thing about learning as a group. A fundamental part of that is making mistakes together.

I've never really seen too much difference between writing or making visual art or designing furniture or clothing. It's still my brain - I'm just using different parts of it for different things.

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.

I've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.

Design is something you have to put your hand to.

The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

Every time I design clothes, I'm making a movie.