Luck is the residue¹ of design.

Branch Rickey (1881 - 1965), Lecture title, 1950

To dismiss front-end design as mere² ‘icing’ is to jeopardize³ the success of any site.

Curt⁴ Cloninger, 2001

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

Ivan Chermayeff

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

Milton Glaser

Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics⁵. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

Paul Rand, 1997

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

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011)

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer⁶. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric⁷ of the curtains of the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. 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 (1955 - 2011)

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

Steve Jobs (1955 - 2011), BusinessWeek, May 25 1998