A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.Ivan Chermayeff
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.Charles Eames
Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.Douglas Martin
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.Paul Rand
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.Steve Jobs
I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.Jeffery Veen
Good designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organizing and manipulating of words and pictures.Jeffery Veen
If a site is perfectly usable but it lacks an elegant and appropriate design style, it will fail.Curt Cloninger
Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.Jesse James Garrett
The design of good houses requires an understanding of both the construction materials and the behavior of real humans.Peter Morville
The location of visual elements in the UI has a huge impact on how the user interprets information.Rick Oppedisan
We find that people quickly evaluate a site by visual design alone.Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility
[Users] said they were more likely to believe Web sites that looked professionally designed.Stanford Web Credibility Study
Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.Bob Baxley
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.Tom Peters
Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service.Steve Jobs
Your products run for election every day and good design is critical to winning the campaign.A.G. Lafley
Design is always about synthesis - synthesis of market needs, technology trends, and business needs.Jim Wicks
Truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.David Lewis