Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames

Design is an unknown.
Geoffrey Beene

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.
Ivan Chermayeff

Design is everything. Everything!
Paul Rand

Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
Carlos Ghosn

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
Issey Miyake

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve Jobs

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn

Design is people.
Jane Jacobs

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
Tom Peters

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

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.
Thomas J. Watson

Design must seduce, shape, and perhaps more importantly, evoke an emotional response.
April Greiman

Design schools are good, I guess, sometimes I visit schools, but they are very very limiting.
Marc Newson

Design works if it's authentic, inspired, and has a clear point of view. It can't be a collection of input.
Ron Johnson

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.
Clement Mok

Don't get too caught up in making money or having a job, get excited about the fact that you can design your life.
Darren L. Johnson

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.
Herbert Simon

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.
Norman Spinrad

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow