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Quotes About Functionality

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.
~ Jef Raskin
Brevity of code Featurefulness Speed of execution Time spent coding Robustness Flexibility
~ Jeff Atwood
Noneditable data should never be displayed in a control that looks editable or operable. Checkboxes, radio buttons, menus, sliders, and the like should never be used for noneditable data because they look operable. Even if they are inactive (grayed), they look like they can somehow be made active, and users will waste time trying to do so.
~ Jeff Johnson
What I think is that every family is happy in their own fashion, and every family is unhappy in their own fashion. Every family is both functional and dysfunctional.
~ Elin Hilderbrand
Claudia reported that her depression eventually passed and she began to do more and get out more. She went back to work part-time and started accepting offers from friends to do things. "Time had passed; I was better, functional and improving, when suddenly the depression returned. I'd thought I was done with it, but I guess it wasn't done with me. "This
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
More importantly, our software worked. I don't just mean that it didn't bump, or that it performed according to the written specifications, or that it was efficient in producing reports. It really worked
~ Eliyahu M. Goldratt
Could anything so handsome, so decorative, so…so enthusiastic…possibly be useful?
~ Elizabeth Moon
A car for every purse and purpose.
~ Alfred P. Sloan
The best tool for any task is the one that you'll actually use.
~ Alton Brown
This is very much my philosophy as a fashion designer. I have never believed in design for design's sake. For me, the most important thing is that people actually wear my clothes. I do not design for the catwalk or for magazine shoots - I design for customers.
~ Giorgio Armani
I have a couple of go-to sneakers off the pitch. I like to have shoes that I can slip on and wear with anything. I travel often, so it's about finding those two or three pairs of shoes that can go with any outfit, whether they go with leggings or a skirt or a dress or jeans.
~ Alex Morgan
I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.
~ Christian Bale
As a designer, you have to solve a lot of problems. Even though people are wearing clothes that are supposed to look beautiful, they'll have to do all kinds of things.
~ Colleen Atwood
Folding in is better than folding out. Folding out is cool, and it looks potentially better... but I don't think that's the way to use a folding phone.
~ Marques Brownlee
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
~ Barry Lam
We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'
~ Jochen Zeitz
First, buy things for their usefulness rather than their status.
~ Richard J. Foster
When you are considering an apartment, a condominium, or a house, thought should be given to livability rather than how much it will impress others.
~ Richard J. Foster
The focus should be on the customer, not on the Web site. It's pretty obvious that a simple Web site is easier to use than one with of a bunch of fancy gadgets. He was adamant about that.
~ Richard L. Brandt
Individuals who are hard of hearing are those in whom the sense of hearing, although defective, is functional either with or without a hearing aid. For these persons, the use of a hearing aid is frequently necessary or desirable to enhance residual hearing (Owens & Farinella, 2019). The extent to which persons with hearing impairment have difficulty developing speech and language is heavily influenced by the degree of hearing loss.
~ Richard M. Gargiulo
The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. "Nevertheless
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Good design is as little design as possible.
~ Yvon Chouinard
The physical examination in older persons, however, also serves to identify treatable impairments such as muscle weakness, gait instability, or sensory impairments, and to directly observe the performance of key functional tasks.
~ Jeffrey B. Halter