Design Role Quotes

Design accelerates the adoption of new ideas. And many of these ideas are important for designers to show that there is a way. When you see things through that lens, you realize it applies to any industry and any form of 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.

I'm a creative guy, a designer, a customer.

I do feel that the world is entering into a period of the incredible period of reflection and introspection. A lot of people are questioning the future, and I can't help but think that's a positive thing. I'm not sure about the art world, but the design world may be able to offer some solutions. Design is about troubleshooting. As a designer, I ultimately feel like a gun for hire. Companies hire me because they've got a problem. That's kind of what it boils down to. And I think this is a moment in our history where we need different solutions.

The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

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.

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

I think of a designer as a processor of information — like a scriptwriter or a novelist.

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

The role of design at a company is to allow you to recreate yourself, to allow your company to find a new way of success before the old way fails.

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

I'd love to be a consultant and help design an offense. That's my true passion, and I want to find an outlet where I can do that.

I had a dual role: designer and advocate.

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

Designers are more like artistic directors now. Before, there wasn't this idea of supervising the artistic direction of the entire house. The old way was to think you could be this couturier or designer or stylist.

It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.'