Since the deprecation of Medium’s Series, I’m transitioning past content to posts paired with images that stimulate the Overview Effect. All photos by USGS.

For more quotes, see Part 1,Part 2, Part 3.

Good design adds value of some kind…it respects the viewer’s sensibilities and rewards the entrepreneur.

— Paul Rand

Design is a process for making things right, for shaping what people need.

—Ralph Calphan

—Maggie Macnab

Great design is describing the very best experience for them, then moving towards that ideal.

— Alan Moore

A design isn’t finished until someone is using it.

— Brenda Laurel

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

—Christopher Alexander

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

— Alan Kay

A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…

—Herbert Simon

— Aaron Walters

— Don Norman

Designers shooting for usable is like a chef shooting for edible.

— Aaron Walters

Solving any problem is more important than being right.

— Milton Glaser

Marketing without design is lifeless, and design without marketing is mute.

— Von Glitschka

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

There is no such thing as a boring project. There are only boring executions.

— Irene Etzkorn

— Paul Rand

— Fiel Valdez

Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.

—Nicholas Negroponte

Technology makes what was once impossible possible. Design makes it real.

— Michael Gagliano

I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things.

— London Leader

Content precedes design.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

I learned that great creators don’t necessarily have the deepest expertise but rather seek out the broadest perspectives.

— Adam Grant

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

— Charles Kettering

Above all else, align with customers.

— Jeff Bezos

Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.

— Bob Baxley

— Arthur Gensler

Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

— Ellen Lupton

What we need to do to design is to look at the extremes. The middle will take care of itself.

— Dan Formosa

Often our hardest job is to remove remove remove.

— Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

My job as a designer is to look into the future. Not to use any frame of reference that exists.

— Marc Newson

— Hella Jongerius

The faster we make our ideas tangible, the sooner we will be able to evaluate them, refine them, and zero in on the best solution.

—Tim Brown

Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.

— Karim Rashid

We imagine to be able to do anything, and our software helps us believe we can… But we must move beyond the ‘how’ to reconsider the ‘what’ and the ‘why’.

— Neville Brody

—Don Norman

Design that mimics the sensual continuity of nature’s subtle connections of color, light and texture invite the viewer’s receptivity.

— Maggie Macnab

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

— Seth Godin

In many ways design is akin to gardening: get rid of the weeds. If data is showing a feature has poor usage or unintentional consequences, kill it.

— Didier Hilhorst

Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.

— Aza Raskin

One problem with conventions: designers are reluctant to take advantage of them.

— Steve Krug

— Tim Berners-Lee

A designer is responsible for the work they put into the world. Design is a discipline of action. You are responsible for what you put into the world.

— Mike Monteiro

Rules can be broken but never ignored.

—David Jury

When you make something no one hates, no one loves it.

— Tibor Kalman

— Will Burtin

The general rule is to involve as many people as possible in early discussions, and make that number as small as possible once you go into review cycles.

—Mike Monteiro

Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

— Buckminster Fuller

And the only way you’re going to do that is to avoid what the culture tells you is good. There is no good. The good comes from what does the job.

—Bob Gill

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that’s how the universe designs itself.

— Buckminster Fuller

As designers, we are in the service industry, but that does not mean we need to be servile. Clients are looking to us for guidance and expertise.

— Kevin Finn

This list of favorites is from a collection of365+ quotes, hence the series name.

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