Steve Jobs Quotes About Design

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  • After all the statistics and calculations are formulated, the one element that breathes life into marketing is good design.

  • Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

    "The Guts of a New Machine" by Rob Walker, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 2003.
  • Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.48, Prabhat Prakashan
  • We don't have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer... But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation.

  • 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 Through The Years" by Mike Isaac, www.wired.com. October 5, 2011.
  • Make it like a sunflower.

  • Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good products... We trust as a consequence of that, people will like them, and as another consequence, we'll make some money. But we're really clear about what our goals are.

    People  
    "24 Quotes From The Genius Behind Apple" by Michael Cramton, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 25, 2011.
  • Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.72, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country.... I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this.... It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating. None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me.

    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

    "Steve Jobs Lays It Down For Playboy". Playboy interview, gizmodo.com. July 15, 2011.
  • Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan
  • Design isn't just how it looks. It's how it works.

  • The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

    "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview With Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.
  • When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks and the engineers.

  • A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

    People  
    "Steve Jobs: The next insanely great thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.
  • Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan
  • 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: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.
  • You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

    Change   Success  
    Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA
  • The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.41, Prabhat Prakashan
  • We had the hardware expertise, the industrial design expertise and the software expertise, including iTunes. One of the biggest insights we have was that we decided not to try to manage your music library on the iPod, but to manage it in iTunes. Other companies tried to do everything on the device itself and made it so complicated that it was useless.

    Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.38, Prabhat Prakashan
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Steve Jobs

  • Born: February 24, 1955
  • Died: October 5, 2011
  • Occupation: Entrepreneur