Devices Quote by Donald A. Norman Download Open image “Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.” — Donald A. Norman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Devices Mind Psychology Simplification
“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...” — Pierre Boulle Copy Share Image
“Simplification is often the difference between doing something you know you should do and putting it off.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Resistance to simplification is based on the belief that every additional feature, part, and function represents an improvement.” — Dan Ward Copy Share Image
I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
“key to winning the race is not to compete against machines but to compete with machines.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
We delude ourselves if we believe that skilled behavior is easy, that it can come about without effort. We forget the years of tuning,… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“If designers and researchers do not sometimes fail, it is a sign that they are not trying hard enough—they are not thinking the great… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
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… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Only the most sophisticated of beings can lie and cheat, and get away with it. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“We need to remove the word failure from our vocabulary, replacing it instead with learning experience. To fail is to learn: we learn more… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
As we go through this transition where a lot more people will be reading on devices, nobody is paying enough attention to make sure… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
In early drafts, one of the trickiest things for me to do was to realize that the techniques and devices that make readable and… — Kathleen Rooney Copy Share Image
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Truth is, people like buying things for $0.99 and $1.99 for their digital devices. We know that from iTunes. We know that from the… — Jennifer Lee Copy Share Image
I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses… — Tom A. Watson Copy Share Image
The documentary style is an incredibly flexible and useful one. It's a wonderful tool for establishing the credibility of the version of things that's… — Frank Gohlke Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often… — Thomas J. Watson Copy Share Image
