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Devices Quotes by Donald A. Norman
- The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to completely accurate but…
- Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.
- What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person…
- Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
- Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the…
- When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.
- A big ethical question is what happens after people stop using the device. Does it degrade the environment? Could it have been designed so it…
- Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available.
More Devices Quotes
- On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with… — Cecil Beaton
- The proud make every man their adversary by pitting their intellects, opinions, works, wealth, talents, or any other worldly measuring device against… — Ezra Taft Benson
- I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category. — Jeff Bezos
- Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. — Ambrose Bierce
- I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson
- I expect to see a lot of household appliances on the Net by 2010, as well as autos and other mobile devices. — Vinton Cerf
- Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything. — Fred Allen
- "Who am I?" is not really a question because it has no answer to it; it is unanswerable. It is a device,… — Rajneesh
- Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose. — Friedrich Nietzsche
- Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent,… — Leland Stanford
- One of our gravest concerns is the entry of a nuclear device or materials into the U.S. — Charles E. Allen
- Those are the things that, in the wrong hands - and certainly in our war on terrorism we also must attack proliferation… — Hugh Shelton