The Design Of Everyday Things Quotes

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

Donald A. Norman

#2. I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.

Sandra Bullock

#3. 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

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

Kay Bojesen

#5. 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

#6. It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.

Alice Hegan Rice

#7. The authentic self is the soul made visible.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. But if you sit around thinking what to do and end up not doing anything, why bother even thinking about it? You're better off going out on the town and having a good time. No, we have to think and act. That's what we're doing here, and that's what you have to do.

Elvia Alvarado

#12. 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

#13. Everyday people are not very good designers.

Donald Norman

#14. I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

Ujjwal Nikam

#15. 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

#16. I never stopped loving you," he whispered. "Not even for a second. Even when I hated you.

Charles Sheehan-Miles

#17. 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

#18. Praise first the mighty blessing of yourself!

Bryant McGill