Quotes About Efficiency

Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

... with proper design, the features come cheaply. This approach is arduous, but continues to succeed.

The best design is the simplest one that works.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

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.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Never do anything yourself that you can hire someone else to do, especially if they can do it better.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

Creativity is to think more efficiently.

great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine.

Once you eliminate quality as a requirement, the entire design process becomes a whole lot easier.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Design adds value faster than it adds cost.

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known.

I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

Evolution is cleverer than you are.

Industrial design keeps the customer happy, his client in the black and the designer busy.

Fiat has a lot going for it in terms of design, technology and efficiency.

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.