Design Of Everyday Things Quotes

#1. We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Kay Bojesen

#2. The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

Donald A. Norman

#3. I dearly love a laugh.

Jane Austen

#4. The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity.

Jane Jacobs

#5. Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

Thomas Perez

#6. To design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap

Alain De Botton

#7. I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

Gary Hamel

#8. Man was designed in a way in which he must eat in order to give him a solid reason to go to work everyday. This helps to keep him out of trouble. God is wise.

Criss Jami

#9. I'm intrigued with figuring out the places [where] the horrible and the beautiful meet - that aesthetic fascinates me.

Neil Gaiman

#10. Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.

Lisa Caputo

#11. Pretend it doesn't hurt, and hope like hell that one day it doesn't anymore.

C.C. Hunter

#12. Doing interesting things and then writing about them is the best way to become a good writer.

Jean Craighead George

#13. Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding ideas from the crevices of the very commonness of everyday life.

Kenya Hara

#14. I would urge everyone to start looking at the world in a different way. Spend some time looking at everyday objects, at their design, their shape, their individual characteristics. Think ahead and imagine their significance.

Martin Parr

#15. Everyday people are not very good designers.

Donald Norman

#16. We are not here to give challenges to anyone, but we will also not take challenges casually. Our defence mechanisms would be the best in the world. A secure India is the first requirement for the country to progress and achieve new heights.

Narendra Modi

#17. Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

Yves Behar

#18. I was thinking more of laughter and smiles. For example, the feeling I get when I read a good book.

Scott D. Southard

#19. People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

Phil Spector

#20. Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

Aaron Betsky