“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
― Douglas Adams (1952-2001)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)
“When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.”
― William Gibson
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
― John Maeda
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.”
― Paul Rand (1914-1996)
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
― Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
“What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be "boiled down" and "simplified"? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.”
― Edward R. Tufte
“Design cannot rescue failed content.”
― Edward R. Tufte
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.”
― Charles Eames (1907-1978)
“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
― Joe Sparano
Any good typeface can be completely destroyed when misused or extensively overused.”
—Alexander Gelman
“Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.”
—Steven Heller
“Design is a solution to a problem; art is a question to a problem.”
—John Maeda