Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life.

“Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.” – Paola Antonelli

Read more from Paola in her article “Core Principles” from Seed Magazine.  Also, check out Paola’s other quotes on inspireUX.

1. Designers should vow to produce things that are meaningful additions to the world
2. Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered
3. Good design produces something the world didn’t know it was missing
4. Designers take what is just a faint glimmer in the mind’s eye and give it shape and life
5. Designers should be the kind of people who stand up and tell it like it is