Quotes About Functionality

Animals have two functions in today's society, to be delicious and to fit well.

We are all insane to one degree or another, and the most functional of us merely hides it the best.

Does anything on you work properly? Asked ter Borcht. Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony. Replied Iggy.

Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?

Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.

That cowboy look - the hat and the bandana - that's not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.

I've stayed in enough hotels so I really know what works and what doesn't design-wise.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

Objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Persons are not perceived as superordinated individuals—as agents who stand independent of their actions—but are rather ongoing "events" defined functionally by constitutive roles and relationships as they are performed within the context of their specific families and communities, that is, through the observance of ritual propriety (li

Apple's design mantra would remain the one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

We wanted to get rid of anything other than what was absolutely essential," he said. "To do so required total collaboration between the designers, the product developers, the engineers, and the manufacturing team. We kept going back to the beginning, again and again. Do we need that part? Can we get it to perform the function of the other four parts?

one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. "The main thing in our design is that we have to

It emphasized rationality and functionality by employing clean lines and forms. Among the maxims preached by Mies and Gropius were "God is in the details" and "Less is more.

There was no CD tray, just a subtle slot. And as with the original Macintosh, there was no

Ive was a fan of the German industrial designer Dieter Rams, who worked for the electronics firm Braun. Rams preached the gospel of "Less but better," Weniger aber besser, and likewise Jobs and Ive wrestled with each new design to see how much they could simplify it.

Grossman correctly noted that the iPhone did not really invent many new features, it just made these features a lot more usable. "But that's important. When our tools don't work, we tend to blame ourselves, for being too stupid or not reading the manual or having too-fat fingers. . . . When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.