Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.
Everyone wants an iPhone, but it would be impossible to design an iPhone in China because it's not a product; it's an understanding of human nature.
You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.
Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection.
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.
