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17 Quotes About Designing Beautiful Products
For those that care about that kind of thing
How do designers think about beauty? For the architects of our world, it is hard not to think about how to make products beautiful. Achieving beautiful product design isn’t easy though. It takes a lot of iteration, wisdom, inspiration, and in some cases luck. Here are 17 quotes about designing beautiful products for those creative minds that are in this noble pursuit.
1. “Every great design begins with an even better story.” — Lorinda Mamo
2. “There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.” — Liv Tyler
3. “For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.” — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
4. “Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.” — Massimo Vignelli
5. “Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. “Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.” — Don Norman
7. “The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.” — Steve Jobs
8. “Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that’s why it is so complicated.” — Paul Rand
