Inspiring quotes from great designers

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‘Design is keeping things simple. We create products for humans and they have to work with it. Everyone needs to understand it and needs to be able to use it properly. Therefore we focus on the core by keeping things simple.’

Jeffrey de Groot

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‘Design is a reflection of your client, not you.’

Jonathan Patterson

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'Design is at its most effective, a flattering reflection of the brand it represents. At its worst, an uncoordinated mishmash of plaid and stripes.

Jonathan Patterson

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'Design is more than just pixels. It's conveying an idea. Good design is conveying an idea well.'

Jared Erondu

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'Design is not the same as art.'

Davey Heuser

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'Design is beautifully boring.'

Nick Chaffe

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'Design is all about making life more enjoyable.'

Callum Chapman, UX & UI Designer

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'Design is not visible.

Design is like a drug. Good designs just gets you hooked.'

Pascal Gartner

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'Design is meaningful. It assists and never hinders.'

Cat Noone

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'Design is an exercise in brevity.'

Daniel Eden, Designer at Dropbox

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'Design is making decisions and solving problems. Design isn’t just about aesthetics, making something pretty or decorative. Design is every decision you make when creating a solution to a problem. Everybody working on a project has a hand in the design.'

Laura Kalbag, Ind.ie

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'Design is breaking patterns, trying new things and not holding on to old ways. Design is constantly evolving.'

Victor Erixon

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'Design isn’t about making things look good, it’s about saying it’s about something else.'

Jake Giltsoff

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'Design is compromise. As a unique human endeavour, imbued with all the complexities of our species, it is about discovering the most appropriate solution within a fog of differing constraints, opinions and desires. The compromise therefore, lies somewhere between the world we wish for, and the one we currently inhabit.'

Paul Robert Lloyd

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'Design is inside and around everything we see and touch. It makes us who we are and shaped the world to become what it is today. Also, design is cat gifs.'

Meg Lewis, Ghostly Ferns

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'Design is a poorly designed word.'

Yaron Schoen, Human Interface Designer

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'Design is, as my friend Jared Spool says, the rendering of intent.'

Daniel Mall