Product design quotes

I recently pulled together my favorite product design quotes from this blog over the years. Here they are in one place:

– Don’t find customers for your products, find products for your customers. – Seth Godin

– People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it. – Simon Sinek

– Focus means saying no to the hundred other good ideas – Steve Jobs

– Technology serves humans; Design is not art; The experience belongs to the user; Great design is invisible; Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication – Joshua Porter

– A new product should be 90% familiar and 10% wildly innovative – Tony Fadell

– Don’t try to be original; just try to be good – Paul Rand

– Design is just decision-making with visual aids – me

– Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey – Werner Herzog

– Design is about solving problems that humans have, not problems that products have. – Mills Baker

– The important thing is the people. – Ed Catmull

– To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein

– Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. – e.e. cummings

– We shall not cease from exploration; And the end of all our exploring; Will be to arrive where we started; And know the place for the first time. – T.S. Eliot

– Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. – Voltaire