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So I went for engineering, specifically product design, which I enjoyed. -- Debi Thomas
I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design. -- Justin Kan
The payoff of a customer-centric approach to software and digital product design is substantial and long-lasting for both companies and their customers. -- Alan Cooper
Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things. -- Michael Graves
I knew a lot about product design before coming to Apple, but I didn't understand a lot about consumer experience design, which is really Apple's forte. -- Tony Fadell
First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love. -- Nate Berkus
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts. -- Andy Clark
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. -- Ross Lovegrove
Design is a field of concern, response, and enquiry as often as decision and consequence... it is convenient to group design into three simple categories, though the distinctions are in no way absolute, nor are they always so described: product design (things), environment design (places) and communication design (messages). -- Norman Potter
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk. -- John Redwood
To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. -- Greg Lynn
We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features. -- Douglas Crockford
You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer. -- Marissa Mayer
I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it. -- Milton Glaser
I came from product design originally - I had been designing dolls for a toy company since I was 16 - so I'm used to working with plastic and different things. I had an innate interest in objects. -- Jason Wu
The emphasis on innovation and technology in our companies has resulted in a few of them establishing global benchmarks in product design and development, manufacturing practices and human resource capabilities. However, there is no room for complacency. -- Baba Kalyani
The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago. -- Ramez Naam
I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV. It was what I had been waiting for - a project that had a lot of the things that I liked: problem-solving, product design, campaigning, and being a bit of a big mouth pain-in-the-bum. -- Marc Koska
To go back to architecture, what's organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. -- Greg Lynn
Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible. -- Dieter Rams
The Apple II was not designed like an ordinary product. It used crazy tricks everywhere. -- Andy Hertzfeld
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design. -- Jef Raskin
Like any well designed software product, Windows is designed, developed and tested as an integrated whole. -- Bill Gates
Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings. -- Jane Chen
A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end. -- Jonathan Ive
Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products. -- Jonathan Ive
Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products. -- James Dyson
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not. -- Gary Hamel
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. -- Ai Weiwei
I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why. -- Tony Fadell
Young people in Israel are encouraged to design, produce and sell their products from high school. Technical universities also matter. Teach and introduce entrepreneurship courses in technical universities. -- Dan Shechtman
As much as we think of performance management as numeric and thus perfectly quantifiable, it is as much a product of context and social science as the products we design and develop. -- Steven Sinofsky
There is no city in America that has reduced crime as much as we have in the last three years. This is not the product of accident. This is the product of design. -- Rudy Giuliani
I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incredibly functional. But mostly it's about picking product, getting behind it, marketing it and introducing it to a customer. What they've done just inspires me. -- Millard Drexler
I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design. -- Jessica Hart
Good design makes a product understandable. -- Dieter Rams
The design should make the product speak to you. -- Dieter Rams
Market-driven design builds the success of the product's marketing into the product itself. -- Seth Godin
How do you design the product in a way so that it sells itself?. -- Regis McKenna
Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the marketplace. -- Norio Ohga
The word design is everything and nothing. The design and the product itself are inseparable. -- Jonathan Ive
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it. -- Alan Cooper
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it. -- Dieter Rams
A product which is unceremoniously wasted to landfill at end of life surely can't be considered good design! -- Neil Tierney
If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product. -- Victor Papanek
C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process. -- Cedric Price
The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose. -- Paul Davies
Great design will not sell an inferior product, but it will enable a great product to achieve its maximum potential. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
The habit of calling a finished product a Design is convenient but wrong. Design is what you do, not what you've done. -- L. Bruce Archer
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
I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process. -- Maya Angelou
When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined. -- Niels Diffrient
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. -- Richard Saul Wurman
you're a product just as much. a product of a product. the people who design cars, they're products, your teachers, products. the minister in your church, another product. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Carry a notebook and write down examples of good and poor design. After a week, you'll begin to realize that nearly everything is the product of a design decision. -- Daniel H. Pink

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