Daily Designer

"We spend all our time talking about attributes because we can easily measure them. Therefore this is all that matters. And that’s a lie." — Jony Ive

Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"We spend all our time talking about attributes because we can easily measure them. Therefore this is all that matters. And that’s a lie."

— Jony Ive

"Making the thing in many different mediums helps you figure out actually what that thing is." — Taylor Levy

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Making the thing in many different mediums helps you figure out actually what that thing is."

— Taylor Levy

"If you aren’t designing something that slightly ticks off people, it means you’re thinking too small." — John Maeda

Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"If you aren’t designing something that slightly ticks off people, it means you’re thinking too small."

— John Maeda

"Form doesn’t follow function anymore... when you take something like an iPhone, until you turn it on and things happen, you don’t know what the function will be." — Paola Antonelli

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Form doesn’t follow function anymore... when you take something like an iPhone, until you turn it on and things happen, you don’t know what the function will be."

— Paola Antonelli

"The creation of a puzzle is one of the tools that you have to make people understand things... the likelihood is that they will remember and respond to it more than if they’re told something directly." — Milton Glaser

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The creation of a puzzle is one of the tools that you have to make people understand things... the likelihood is that they will remember and respond to it more than if they’re told something directly."

— Milton Glaser

"I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints." — Charles Eames

Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I don’t remember ever being forced to accept compromises, but I have willingly accepted constraints."

— Charles Eames

"No one secretly wants a new logo. They all want someone else’s logo, or they want their old logo back." — Michael Bierut

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"No one secretly wants a new logo. They all want someone else’s logo, or they want their old logo back."

— Michael Bierut

"Confidence is overrated... What’s more important than confidence is courage. Confidence comes from the repeated endeavor... how could you expect to have confidence in something you don’t know how to do?" — Debbie Millman

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Confidence is overrated... What’s more important than confidence is courage. Confidence comes from the repeated endeavor... how could you expect to have confidence in something you don’t know how to do?"

— Debbie Millman

"One of the questions that you have to ask yourself is whether who does the driving? Do you, do we? Does the machine, where does the agent fit in this?" — Muriel Cooper

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"One of the questions that you have to ask yourself is whether who does the driving? Do you, do we? Does the machine, where does the agent fit in this?"

— Muriel Cooper

"People at tech companies who are designing tend to look at images from other tech companies... there’s just hobo signs and engravings and all that source material that maybe just can spur you to think a little bit more outside the valley" — Susan Kare

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"People at tech companies who are designing tend to look at images from other tech companies... there’s just hobo signs and engravings and all that source material that maybe just can spur you to think a little bit more outside the valley"

— Susan Kare

"The logo is recognizable not because of the arc, not because of the typeface, but because of the ubiquitousness... you see them everywhere... That’s how big companies get known." — Paula Scher

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The logo is recognizable not because of the arc, not because of the typeface, but because of the ubiquitousness... you see them everywhere... That’s how big companies get known."

— Paula Scher

"Pursuing dead ends is your creative life insurance… it’s almost like becoming a professional soccer player — if you come home from practice 10 times in a row without a single bloody knee, you’re doing something wrong." — Christoph Niemann

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Pursuing dead ends is your creative life insurance… it’s almost like becoming a professional soccer player — if you come home from practice 10 times in a row without a single bloody knee, you’re doing something wrong."

— Christoph Niemann

"Beauty is actually intelligence — beauty is precision — beauty is not decoration" — Natasha Jen

Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Beauty is actually intelligence — beauty is precision — beauty is not decoration"

— Natasha Jen

"Technology enables but design establishes." — Robert Brunner

Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Technology enables but design establishes."

— Robert Brunner

"Confidence is always about yourself while enthusiasm is about something else... confidence is impressive while enthusiasm is infectious... confidence is serious while enthusiasm is fun and fun wins" — Tina Roth-Eisenberg

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Confidence is always about yourself while enthusiasm is about something else... confidence is impressive while enthusiasm is infectious... confidence is serious while enthusiasm is fun and fun wins"

— Tina Roth-Eisenberg

"My greatest design tool personally is to look what that genre is doing and make it 3 to 5% different." — Virgil Abloh

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"My greatest design tool personally is to look what that genre is doing and make it 3 to 5% different."

— Virgil Abloh

"I didn’t realize that the root of the word object is really that something is thrown in your way… objects are not just unobtrusive, blending into our environment." — Konstantin Grcic

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I didn’t realize that the root of the word object is really that something is thrown in your way… objects are not just unobtrusive, blending into our environment."

— Konstantin Grcic

"I don’t like the word compromise... I’ve known for a long time that as long as I maintain the central idea to the project and I can adjust the work to suit." — Zaha Hadid

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I don’t like the word compromise... I’ve known for a long time that as long as I maintain the central idea to the project and I can adjust the work to suit."

— Zaha Hadid

"I say the best design is invisible nudge... the best way is to just apply a tiny little pressure that they don’t even notice, right? And then they lean forward and they fall into it." — Jenova Chen

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I say the best design is invisible nudge... the best way is to just apply a tiny little pressure that they don’t even notice, right? And then they lean forward and they fall into it."

— Jenova Chen

"The most interesting films that take the biggest risks are the ones with the least amount of money — because people who’ve got lots of money don’t want to risk spending lots of money on a filmmaker taking a risk." — Sandy Powell

Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The most interesting films that take the biggest risks are the ones with the least amount of money — because people who’ve got lots of money don’t want to risk spending lots of money on a filmmaker taking a risk."

— Sandy Powell

"One of the things I learned from designers like Paula and Louise is that good type doesn’t come from the computer — it comes from the culture." — Jonathan Hoefler

Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"One of the things I learned from designers like Paula and Louise is that good type doesn’t come from the computer — it comes from the culture."

— Jonathan Hoefler

"Getting really far out of your comfort zone… kind of rewires your brain." — Ian Spalter

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Getting really far out of your comfort zone… kind of rewires your brain."

— Ian Spalter

"The more it’s simple, the harder it is to make... that’s a lot more work than sometimes people are willing to take on." — Yves Béhar

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The more it’s simple, the harder it is to make... that’s a lot more work than sometimes people are willing to take on."

— Yves Béhar

"The success of the iPod, iPhone and so on is that it is a product, but above all a system, and behind the system, a service, first and foremost." — Erik Spiekermann

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The success of the iPod, iPhone and so on is that it is a product, but above all a system, and behind the system, a service, first and foremost."

— Erik Spiekermann

"We've come from being a society that is paranoid about being observed to a society that is… paranoid that nobody's watching." — Elizabeth Diller

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"We've come from being a society that is paranoid about being observed to a society that is… paranoid that nobody's watching."

— Elizabeth Diller

"Whenever I start a project, I'm thinking about: what do we need to feel when we walk inside?" — Jeanne Gang

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Whenever I start a project, I'm thinking about: what do we need to feel when we walk inside?"

— Jeanne Gang

"Simplicity isn't about removing clutter — you just end up with an uncluttered product. A desiccated, soulless product." — Jony Ive

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Simplicity isn't about removing clutter — you just end up with an uncluttered product. A desiccated, soulless product."

— Jony Ive

"A great tool is one that just makes you feel happier than you did before you were using it." — Taylor Levy

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"A great tool is one that just makes you feel happier than you did before you were using it."

— Taylor Levy

"We can't help but love complexity. We're human beings: we love complex things." — John Maeda

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"We can't help but love complexity. We're human beings: we love complex things."

— John Maeda

"I'm driven by the hope that I haven't made my best work yet." — Paula Scher

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I'm driven by the hope that I haven't made my best work yet."

— Paula Scher

"What the students get from a good teacher is not instruction. What they get is a demonstration of someone's view of life. I mean, that's what you teach — you teach a way of perceiving the world." — Milton Glaser

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"What the students get from a good teacher is not instruction. What they get is a demonstration of someone's view of life. I mean, that's what you teach — you teach a way of perceiving the world."

— Milton Glaser

"Design is meaningless unless it's having the intended effect or the unintended effect on other people." — Michael Bierut

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Design is meaningless unless it's having the intended effect or the unintended effect on other people."

— Michael Bierut

"This thing that you've made, it's from you, and it feels like you, but it really isn't you. It goes out there, and it's not yours anymore. Your thing becomes our thing." — Frank Chimero

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"This thing that you've made, it's from you, and it feels like you, but it really isn't you. It goes out there, and it's not yours anymore. Your thing becomes our thing."

— Frank Chimero

"Never sit and wait for the phone to ring with the perfect job. Why? Because there is no perfect job. The perfect job is the one that you make for yourself." — Louise Fili

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Never sit and wait for the phone to ring with the perfect job. Why? Because there is no perfect job. The perfect job is the one that you make for yourself."

— Louise Fili

"Don't get too committed to any one idea too early… the core idea is going to be shifting around underneath your feet all the time, and you need to kind of understand the region of space it can shift in." — Will Wright

Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Don't get too committed to any one idea too early… the core idea is going to be shifting around underneath your feet all the time, and you need to kind of understand the region of space it can shift in."

— Will Wright

"You have to decide what is more important: doing something and fearing that rejection and fearing the failure, or having regretted not having done it. Which would you rather die of?" — Debbie Millman

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"You have to decide what is more important: doing something and fearing that rejection and fearing the failure, or having regretted not having done it. Which would you rather die of?"

— Debbie Millman

"The difference between going into a bookstore and browsing, and the fact of reading are two very different but very, very critical ways of gathering information." — Muriel Cooper

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The difference between going into a bookstore and browsing, and the fact of reading are two very different but very, very critical ways of gathering information."

— Muriel Cooper

"Software... you can change it even over time, you can go back and change it and you can get a wider audience... even if it doesn't have your name on it." — Susan Kare

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Software... you can change it even over time, you can go back and change it and you can get a wider audience... even if it doesn't have your name on it."

— Susan Kare

"What does it take to come up with a really great idea? It's really 87% effort — it's like sitting there banging your head against the table... There's 7.5% luck." — Christoph Niemann

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"What does it take to come up with a really great idea? It's really 87% effort — it's like sitting there banging your head against the table... There's 7.5% luck."

— Christoph Niemann

"Methodology somehow has become the idea itself — that itself is really troubling because methodology is kind of empty, a vessel that should be different to different situations" — Natasha Jen

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Methodology somehow has become the idea itself — that itself is really troubling because methodology is kind of empty, a vessel that should be different to different situations"

— Natasha Jen

"The process of purchasing it maybe at the Apple Store, getting it in that wonderful box, turning it on, experiencing the interface, creating content, connecting with your family and friends — then it becomes an iPhone." — Robert Brunner

Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The process of purchasing it maybe at the Apple Store, getting it in that wonderful box, turning it on, experiencing the interface, creating content, connecting with your family and friends — then it becomes an iPhone."

— Robert Brunner

"If you think about how a lot of the education system is… You first learn the tools and then maybe you get to apply them on ideas. Sometimes you might not even get to the ideas." — Simone Giertz

Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"If you think about how a lot of the education system is… You first learn the tools and then maybe you get to apply them on ideas. Sometimes you might not even get to the ideas."

— Simone Giertz

"Architects have been trained to think about their designs in terms of assemblies of discrete parts made of homogeneous materials, but we know that nature doesn't operate this way." — Neri Oxman

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Architects have been trained to think about their designs in terms of assemblies of discrete parts made of homogeneous materials, but we know that nature doesn't operate this way."

— Neri Oxman

"Space is supposed to enrich your life... that's why the public domain is very important — because not everybody has luxurious places to live. That's why schools should be very interesting. Libraries, theaters, museums." — Zaha Hadid

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Space is supposed to enrich your life... that's why the public domain is very important — because not everybody has luxurious places to live. That's why schools should be very interesting. Libraries, theaters, museums."

— Zaha Hadid

"Our process is never about splattering the world of possibilities on the wall and showing a client, oh, these are the 20 different ways this can be done. What we do instead is we pick one thing that we think would be really extraordinary." — Yves Béhar

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Our process is never about splattering the world of possibilities on the wall and showing a client, oh, these are the 20 different ways this can be done. What we do instead is we pick one thing that we think would be really extraordinary."

— Yves Béhar

"Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can remove, which is actually a very good principle to apply to UI design." — Will Wright

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can remove, which is actually a very good principle to apply to UI design."

— Will Wright

"We can offer a 2.0 to every idea — if we thought of creativity like tech, it's like without the iPod, would we have gotten to the iPhone 7" — Virgil Abloh

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"We can offer a 2.0 to every idea — if we thought of creativity like tech, it's like without the iPod, would we have gotten to the iPhone 7"

— Virgil Abloh

"I'm a big believer that companies are energetic entities. They literally have soul... that vibration is dictated by the people that contribute to it... everyone I hire, everyone I allow into my network is contributing and adding and possibly damaging or amplifying the positive." — Tina Roth-Eisenberg

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I'm a big believer that companies are energetic entities. They literally have soul... that vibration is dictated by the people that contribute to it... everyone I hire, everyone I allow into my network is contributing and adding and possibly damaging or amplifying the positive."

— Tina Roth-Eisenberg

"It's good to have a challenge... if you can place, 'oh yeah, I can do that, that's easy' — you're not going to push yourself... I think you can achieve much more with a little bit of terror behind you." — Sandy Powell

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"It's good to have a challenge... if you can place, 'oh yeah, I can do that, that's easy' — you're not going to push yourself... I think you can achieve much more with a little bit of terror behind you."

— Sandy Powell

"I feel that language plays a role in the process. Simply because... talking about an idea in the early stage forces me to be precise in explaining what it is that I'm looking for but without creating an image." — Konstantin Grcic

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I feel that language plays a role in the process. Simply because... talking about an idea in the early stage forces me to be precise in explaining what it is that I'm looking for but without creating an image."

— Konstantin Grcic

"In many ways, super normal objects — you can't really design them. They become super normal through use, almost." — Jasper Morrison

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"In many ways, super normal objects — you can't really design them. They become super normal through use, almost."

— Jasper Morrison

"Effective communication does not depend on how wisely we talk to our partner, but how intensely we listen to him." — Kenya Hara

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Effective communication does not depend on how wisely we talk to our partner, but how intensely we listen to him."

— Kenya Hara

"You put yourself out there and you don't wait for the opportunity. You just steal it." — Elizabeth Diller

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"You put yourself out there and you don't wait for the opportunity. You just steal it."

— Elizabeth Diller

"Italian racing bikes — they're beautiful and they work well, and they work well because they're beautiful, and they're beautiful because they work well." — Erik Spiekermann

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Italian racing bikes — they're beautiful and they work well, and they work well because they're beautiful, and they're beautiful because they work well."

— Erik Spiekermann

"Never forget that it's not just about the work you're putting out there, it's about the people… and that's actually the thing that's going to last the longest." — Ian Spalter

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Never forget that it's not just about the work you're putting out there, it's about the people… and that's actually the thing that's going to last the longest."

— Ian Spalter

"The role of the architect in this is really just to be the listening party — to not impose ourself on it at all right now, and just get the stories." — Jeanne Gang

Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"The role of the architect in this is really just to be the listening party — to not impose ourself on it at all right now, and just get the stories."

— Jeanne Gang

"Great art always [emerges] at dramatic tragic times because more people are able to relate towards something that is strong." — Jenova Chen

Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Great art always [emerges] at dramatic tragic times because more people are able to relate towards something that is strong."

— Jenova Chen

"I think it's really important to have a second or third acts or more. … you can do your best work in your third chapter." — Louise Fili

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I think it's really important to have a second or third acts or more. … you can do your best work in your third chapter."

— Louise Fili

"Sometimes people compare design and art and say, ‘Oh, design is commercial.’ I think that art is so much more commercial than design... design is very straightforward in its value scheme. There's a price, you pay it, and then you own the design." — Paola Antonelli

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Sometimes people compare design and art and say, ‘Oh, design is commercial.’ I think that art is so much more commercial than design... design is very straightforward in its value scheme. There's a price, you pay it, and then you own the design."

— Paola Antonelli

"Being self-deprecating is always beating people to the punch. It kind of was a survival tactic on the internet, of being never daring to set out as an expert." — Simone Giertz

Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Being self-deprecating is always beating people to the punch. It kind of was a survival tactic on the internet, of being never daring to set out as an expert."

— Simone Giertz

"You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it. And getting it means doing it your own way, and the obligation to get something right is incredibly unnecessary." — Maira Kalman

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"You don't have to get it right, you just have to get it. And getting it means doing it your own way, and the obligation to get something right is incredibly unnecessary."

— Maira Kalman

"Humane won't just happen … humane is never a default, and humane only comes out of very deliberate and conscientious design work." — Bret Victor

Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Humane won't just happen … humane is never a default, and humane only comes out of very deliberate and conscientious design work."

— Bret Victor

"Everybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has… wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence. And it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through technology." — Neri Oxman

Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Everybody talks about intelligence these days, but I like to think that nature has… wisdom that exists beyond intelligence or above intelligence. And it's that wisdom that we're trying to tap into through technology."

— Neri Oxman

"I entreat you not to produce more, but to seek more." — Kenya Hara

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I entreat you not to produce more, but to seek more."

— Kenya Hara

"What I found to be more interesting — both artistically engaging and perhaps more commercially unique — is the idea of looking at historical models in terms of Unfinished Business." — Jonathan Hoefler

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"What I found to be more interesting — both artistically engaging and perhaps more commercially unique — is the idea of looking at historical models in terms of Unfinished Business."

— Jonathan Hoefler

"I think architecture is a campaign — to get the things to make the city the place that you want it to be." — Jeanne Gang

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"I think architecture is a campaign — to get the things to make the city the place that you want it to be."

— Jeanne Gang

"Whatever the level is, excellence can always exist on that level. So a good ham and cheese sandwich is really every bit as good as a crème brûlée — in fact it's better than a crème brûlée — but each form requires its own level of intelligence and passion." — Milton Glaser

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Whatever the level is, excellence can always exist on that level. So a good ham and cheese sandwich is really every bit as good as a crème brûlée — in fact it's better than a crème brûlée — but each form requires its own level of intelligence and passion."

— Milton Glaser

"Designer sitting with a quill pen outside a Parisian window, struck by Proust or struck by whatever… that's a fairy tale. It's designed just the same way Disney is." — Virgil Abloh

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"Designer sitting with a quill pen outside a Parisian window, struck by Proust or struck by whatever… that's a fairy tale. It's designed just the same way Disney is."

— Virgil Abloh

"There's a power in naivete... if you just don't know what danger you're in, what the downsides are, or what's impossible, you're far more likely to try something that hasn't been tried before." — Susan Kare

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"There's a power in naivete... if you just don't know what danger you're in, what the downsides are, or what's impossible, you're far more likely to try something that hasn't been tried before."

— Susan Kare

"If something doesn't work, it's ugly." — Jony Ive

Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

"If something doesn't work, it's ugly."

— Jony Ive