Bob Baxley

Like all forms of design, visual design is about problem solving, not about personal preference or unsupported opinion.

A design executive who lives and works in Silicon Valley. The head of product design at Pinterest where he builds, leads, and manages a multifaceted design team.

Design & Arts

Problem Solving
Purpose of Design

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Surprise me!

We designers create tools. Tools that you can live in, sit on, eat with, tools that enable communication and support learning, creating, and mending. Our tools can be powerful, they can be beautiful, and on many occasions they’re not motivated by understood or articulated needs.

Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

Industrial Design
Purpose of Design

High degrees of specialisation may be rendering us unable to see the connections between the things we design and their consequences as they ripple out into the biosphere and technosphere in ways we aren’t trained to see or may never fully understand.

Terri Irwin

An American–Australian naturalist, conservationist, author, and the owner of Australia Zoo in Beerwah, Queensland.

Purpose of Design
Responsibility

Styles come and go. Good design is a language, not a style.

Massimo Vignelli

An Italian designer who worked in a number of areas ranging from package design through house-ware design and furniture design to public signage and showroom design.

Design Trends
Purpose of Design
Visual Language

There is always an easy solution to every problem—neat, plausible and wrong.

Henry L. Mencken

An American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements.

Problem Solving
Simplicity

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