120 quotes found
“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”
“Designer turns daily common objects to sexy and interesting stuff but not necessarily functional.”
“One of the talents of the [late] great Steve Jobs is that he [knew] how to design Medusa-like products. While every Macintosh model has had flaws (some more than others), most of them have has a se...”
“All our media are given over to things that are better left unsaid.”
“Embrace iteration as the road to improvement, but don't let that lull you into rolling out poorly-thought-out crap.”
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
“Early on, Mike Markkula had taught Jobs to "impute" - to understand that people do judge a book by its cover - and therefore to make sure all the trappings and packaging of Apple signaled that ther...”
“Simplicity is all but nothing that's there.”
“Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects,and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.”
“Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-b...”
“Case studies of failure should be made a part of the vocabulary of every engineer so that he or she can recall or recite them when something in a new design or design process is suggestive of what ...”
“I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.”
“I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.”
“By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from desig...”
“There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.”
“The space within becomes the reality of the building.”
“I don't think there is anything wrong with white space. I don't think it's a problem to have a blank wall.”
“So we originally expected to make about 35 gigawatt hours at the cell level and about 50 gigawatt hours at the module or pack level. Now we are expecting to do about 150 gigawatt hours in the same ...”
“How do you design it so that people can form a space of their own, and feel quiet and contemplative?”
“Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.”
