“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

“In an ideal world, social responsibility would be a prerequisite for design, and designers would vow to produce beautiful, useful, positive, responsible, functional, and economical things and concepts that are meaningful additions to—or sometimes subtractions from—the world we live in. Indeed, design deserves such thoughtful consideration.” – Paola Antonelli

Read more from Paola, senior curator of design and architecture at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, in her article “Core Principles” from Seed Magazine.

Thanks to @nonperishable and @21xdesign for sharing this article on Twitter!

1. Good design produces something the world didn’t know it was missing
2. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life.
3. Good designers have the trained ability to represent the world as others expect to see it

“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need, and beauty to produce something that the world didn’t know it was missing.” – Paola Antonelli

Paola’s quote is from a design round table discussion conducted by Wired.com. Paola is a curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

1. Designers should vow to produce things that are meaningful additions to the world
2. Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life.
3. Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered