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design.quotesilike.com was created by Lance Barrera,  a product designer who spends a lot of time listening to the people pushing design forward. What you’ll find here is curated and practical. Not just design legends, but contemporary leaders and emerging voices too. A collection of thinking that shapes the field and challenges how we work.

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Use AI as a tool, but don't expect it to make something that no one has ever seen or imagined before. That's your job."

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Dylan Field
Design Futures
AI
Dylan Field
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#dylan-field-2

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Design FuturesAI
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
Medium:
LinkedIn
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Primary
Year
2026
Date added
January 12, 2026

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Claiming to be future ready without worrying about human costs and the value of your work doesn't signal progress. If anything, it's a lack of future perspective entirely."

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Anjela Freyja
AI
Design Futures
Anjela Freyja
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#anjela-freyja-3-84zwt

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AIDesign Futures
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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TikTok
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Primary
Year
2026
Date added
January 10, 2026

"

If you want to win, invest in design, craft, storytelling and a bold point of view."

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Dylan Field
Design Futures
AI
Dylan Field
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#dylan-field

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Design FuturesAI
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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LinkedIn
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Primary
Year
2026
Date added
January 8, 2026

"

Technology changes what we can achieve by expanding what we can imagine."

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Loredana Crisan
Design Futures
AI
Loredana Crisan
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#loredana-crisan

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Design FuturesAI
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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LinkedIn
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Primary
Year
2026
Date added
January 8, 2026

"

Rawness isn't just aesthetic preference anymore—it's proof. It's defensive. A way of saying: this is real because it's imperfect."

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Adam Mosseri
Design Futures
Craft
Adam Mosseri
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#adam-mosseri

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Design FuturesCraft
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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Instagram
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Primary
Year
2025
Date added
January 3, 2026

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As deepfakes and slop will soon pervade all surfaces, [...] premium will become more closely aligned to time intensive endeavors than sleek but instantaneous content."

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Forest Young
Craft
Design Futures
Forest Young
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#forest-young

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CraftDesign Futures
Source
By Design
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Secondary
Year
2025
Date added
January 2, 2026

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The conviction to defy the brisk pace of technological acceleration emits an aura of courage."

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Forest Young
Craft
AI
Forest Young
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#forrest-young-quote

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CraftAI
Source
By Design
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Secondary
Year
2025
Date added
January 2, 2026

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The more artificial the world becomes, the more human we must be."

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Alice Au Quan
AI
Design Futures
Alice Au Quan
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#alice-au-quan

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AIDesign Futures
Source
AI / Design for Good
Type:
Website Content
Medium:
Website
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
December 29, 2025

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While machines can replicate processes, only we as humans can tell the stories that move people and move culture. That is the skill that will take you into the future."

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Anjela Freyja
AI
Design Futures
Anjela Freyja
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#anjela-freyja-2

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AIDesign Futures
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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TikTok
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Primary
Year
2025
Date added
December 28, 2025

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Design today requires more than a knowledge of fonts and colors and buttons. It requires an ability to storytell. An ability to uncover emotional truths, and communicate them flawlessly through creativity."

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Anjela Freyja
Design Futures
Craft
Anjela Freyja
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#anjela-freyja

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Design FuturesCraft
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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TikTok
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Primary
Year
2025
Date added
December 28, 2025

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Until we fix how we are as a society, as a humanity, our AI will still have these wayward weird outcomes that are not beneficial to the world."

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Ovetta Sampson
AI
Design Futures
Ovetta Sampson
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#ovetta-sampson-quote

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AIDesign Futures
Source
Technically Speaking with Harrison Wheeler
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
December 28, 2025

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When people talk about style, they talk about the surface, when in fact—style involves the personal voice."

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Steven Heller
Craft
Design Philosophy
Steven Heller
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#steven-heller

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CraftDesign Philosophy
Source
Design Matters
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2015
Date added
December 27, 2025

"

With play, design is like improvisational jazz. A concert of many signs and symbols."

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Steven Heller
Craft
Design Philosophy
Steven Heller
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#steven-heller-quote

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CraftDesign Philosophy
Source
Design Matters
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2015
Date added
December 27, 2025

"

Easy to know that diamonds are precious. Good to learn that rubies have depth. But more to see that pebbles are miraculous."

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Josef Albers
Design Education
Design Philosophy
Josef Albers
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#josef-lbers

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Design EducationDesign Philosophy
Source
Design Matters
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Secondary
Year
2013
Date added
December 26, 2025

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Instead of operating out of a place of fear, you can operate out of a place of curiosity and passion."

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Jessica Hische
Design Philosophy
Design Thinking
Jessica Hische
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#jessica-hische

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Design PhilosophyDesign Thinking
Source
Design Better
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
December 26, 2025

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Great cultures are not great cultures because they contain an attribute. They are great because they value an attribute."

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Phil Gilbert
Leadership
Design Thinking
Phil Gilbert
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#phil-gilbert

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LeadershipDesign Thinking
Source
Design Better
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
December 17, 2025

"

Every brand is in panic over AI, so they're all sprinting back to the same safe word—craft."

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Emma Chozick
AI
Design Futures
Emma Chozick
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#emma-chozick

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AIDesign Futures
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Direct Quote
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Social Post
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TikTok
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Primary
Year
2025
Date added
November 18, 2025

"

People remember how you made them think, not just what you said."

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Emily Schaefer
Design Philosophy
Design Thinking
Emily Schaefer
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#people-remember-how-you-made-them-think-not-just-what-you-said

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Design PhilosophyDesign Thinking
Source
Direct Quote
Type:
Conversation
Medium:
In-Person
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
November 10, 2025

"

If you want to inspire productivity, what I've seen be the most effective for that is to inspire joy."

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Ben Swire
Leadership
Design Operations
Ben Swire
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#ben-swire

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LeadershipDesign Operations
Source
Design Better
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
November 6, 2025

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Curiousity is the most powerful way of pushing back while being respectful, because you're asking to understand what it is that you're missing."

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Ben Swire
Leadership
Design Operations
Ben Swire
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https://quotesilike.webflow.io/#ben-swire-quote

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LeadershipDesign Operations
Source
Design Better
Type:
Podcast
Medium:
Spotify
Quality:
Primary
Year
2025
Date added
November 6, 2025

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