Quotes About Interaction

I text you becuase I want to have a conversation with you, not to be pissed off and get my day ruined.

You know the other person is bored of texting when they say 'lol' when you weren't being funny.

We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.

Everything that we design is designing us back

A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.

The backgrounds by design are a very key part of the conversation, because I want a kind of fight or pressure to exist between the figure and the background.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

Design is art that people use.

Planning is design. As a designer what I tend to do, and what's different from being a painter, is that I interact with other people, and the people have things they need to have happen.

True interactivity is not about clicking on icons or downloading files, it's about encouraging communication.

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.

I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

The design should make the product speak to you.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

Service Marketing delivers when great communication meets great service design.

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away.

Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns and remembers.

John, what are you doing? John, my diet soda. What are you doing?

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin.

Education is an imprecise process, a dance, and a collaborative experience.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.