In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric 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.

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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor. A pioneer of the personal computer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, Jobs co-founded Apple Inc. with his early business partner Steve Wozniak as Apple Computer Company in 1976. After the company's board...

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

Give no decision till both sides thou'st heard.

My intent is simply to know my material so well that I'm very comfortable with it. Confidence, not perfection, is the goal.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

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Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

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

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

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

—Milton Glaser

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

—Ivan Chermayeff

To dismiss front-end design as mere 'icing' is to jeopardize the success of any site.

—Curt Cloninger

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