Quotes About Functionality

A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa.

I had always felt that mittens were a few steps back on the evolutionary scale—why, I wondered, would we want to make ourselves into a less agile version of a lobster?

I Try to design things that someone like myself would like to use which is that it just works, and you don't have to think about it at all

And it was, as Dougal explained, convenient to the pillory, a homely wooden contraption that stood on a small stone plinth in the center of the square, adjacent to the wooden stake used—with thrifty economy of purpose—as whipping post, maypole, flagstaff and horse tether, depending upon requirements.

Just because it's automatic doesn't mean it works.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Every noun in your microinteraction should be unique. If you have two of the same nouns, consider combining them. Also make sure that any two (or more) nouns that look the same also behave the same. Don't have two similar buttons that act completely different. Objects that behave differently should look differently. Likewise, don't have the same noun work differently in different places.

The best, most elegant microinteractions are often those that allow users a variety of verbs with the fewest possible nouns.

It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that is a serious misunderstanding of what design is and why it matters - especially now.

Design—that is, utility enhanced by significance—has become an essential aptitude for personal fulfillment and professional success

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

In functional families the roles are chosen and are flexible. The members have the choice of giving up the roles. In dysfunctional families the roles are rigid.

L. Lack of coping skills (underlearning). You never learned how to do many things necessary for a fully functional life. Your methods of problem-solving do not work, but you continue to use the same ones over and over. You learned ways of caring for your wounds that, in fact, perpetuated them. You have no real knowledge of what is normal. Your bottom-line tolerance is quite abnormal.

Design must be functional and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics, without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

For most of us, design is invisible. Until it fails

Design isn't crafting a beautiful, textured button with breathtaking animation. It's figuring out if there's a way to get rid of the button altogether.