Devices Quote by Donald A. Norman

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

— Elon Musk

Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when and for what.

— Alan Kay

When you have trouble with things—whether it's figuring out whether to push or pull a door or the arbitrary vagaries of the modern computer…

— Donald A. Norman

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

“The manual, or written specification, is a necessary tool, though not a sufficient one. The manual is the external specification of the product. It…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Serious accidents are frequently blamed on "human error." Yet careful analysis of such situations shows that the design or installation of the equipment has…

— Donald A. Norman

Why doesn't love come with an owner's manual?

— Ellen Hopkins

I think it's only failure if you put the word failure on it. I think it's part of the process of learning where you're…

— Daymond John

“Good companies like good products have instruction manuals.”

— James Dion

When a door is hard to open, and if nothing else works, sometimes you just have to rear back and kick it open.

— Muriel Siebert

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

— Anne Lamott

It's a failure only if you don't get anything out of it, Thomas Edison said he knew 999 ways that a light bulb did…

— Benjamin Carson