Quotes About Functionality

What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested.

A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth. Take my word for it: It's really that simple.

A person of average (or even below average) ability and experience can figure out how to use the thing to accomplish something without it being more trouble than it's worth.

The Matisse seemed to respond to the decreasing light by increasing its own wattage. Every object in the room was drained of color, but the Matisse stood firm in the de-escalating illumination, its beauty turning functionality inside out, making itself a more practical and useful presence than anything else in sight.

NASA identifies reuse candidates at the ends of their projects. They then perform the work needed to make the classes reusable as a special project at the end of the main project or as the first step in a new project. This approach helps prevent gold-plating—creation of functionality that isn't required and that unnecessarily adds complexity.

in the vast majority of systems, efficiency isn't critical.

Notably, the core of NASA's approach to creating reusable classes does not involve designing for reuse. NASA identifies reuse candidates at the ends of their projects. They then perform the work needed to make the classes reusable as a special project at the end of the main project or as the first step in a new project. This approach helps prevent gold-plating—creation of functionality that isn't required and that unnecessarily adds complexity.

Conventionally, a developer will create a piece of software, and once it's finished, expose a small part of its functionality to outside developers via the API. The Twitter team took the exact opposite approach. They built the API first, and exposed all the data that was crucial to the service, and then they built Twitter.com on top of the API.

What I love about design is the artistic and scientific complexity that also becomes useful.

Al aumentar desproporcionadamente el tamaño de una zona cerebral hace que esta tienda a contactar con zonas que antes no inervaba, produciéndose una interacción entre estas zonas que no se daba en la especie ancestral, lo que puede llevar a mejoras funcionales.

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If it isn't ethical, it can't be beautiful. But if it isn't beautiful, it probably shouldn't be at all.'

There is a reason why, on a DS, you get that little click when you press a button. There is a reason that it was important to have a microphone in the Wii Remote.

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

When the country was new, homes, like dresses, were constructed more for wearing qualities than beauty.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

Everything that is, must appear, and nothing can appear without a shape of its own; hence there is in fact no thing that does not in some way transcend its functional use, and its transcendence, its beauty or ugliness, is identical with appearing publicly and being seen. By the same token, namely, in its sheer worldly existence, every thing also transcends the sphere of pure instrumentality once it is completed.

I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

I'm not a make-up person, but I love wearable products that are easy to use, with fun packaging

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.