Design Quality Quotes

Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Accessible design is good design.

What made Louis Vuitton famous was the quality. We don't do marketing; we just create products which are exceptional in their design and craftsmanship.

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

The difference between good design and great design is intelligence.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

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

Don't hurry your code. Make sure it works well and is well designed. Don't worry about timing.

Like many people out there, I'm inspired by the level of attention to detail, design and execution of Apple products.

I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing.

If we're deciding about merch pieces, t-shirts or hats, they have to be well designed and cool enough for somebody to want to buy it and then wear it and walk around advertising me and my music.

The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.

My commitment is that Crown Sydney won't be just another hotel: it will be a landmark building for Sydney with a design and quality that the city deserves.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

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

Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news.

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

I had an argument with my students on why they want to present their work in an iBook, it's like your sister who has no design training, put on some outfits in the bedroom, took some pictures, sent them to Apple and after paying 40 quid, you have a portfolio! I can't believe it.

Good design is good business.

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement.

The design process is about designing and prototyping and making. When you separate those, I think the final result suffers.