Engineering Quote by Giles Colborne Download Open image ““If you want to make something simple, design for the multitude.”” — Giles Colborne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Engineering
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“It may happen that we do not always want the most beautiful form, but one of our own designing. ” — Shirley Hibberd Copy Share Image
“Nothing we design or make ever really works??? Everything we design and make is an improvisation, a lash-up, something inept and provisional.” — David Pye Copy Share Image
“You may not need to do it all, design it all or direct it all. But when it comes to making things you want… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
“Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.” — Richard Diaz Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is achieved when everyone can easily understand and use the design, regardless of experience, literacy, or concentration level.” — William Lidwell Copy Share Image
“Design is not really a way for me to express myself. Design is a product that we produce for a client.” — Peleg Top Copy Share Image
“Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“It’s been pointed out that products that start out simple often end up getting so complex they cease to be useful. But if you… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“At home, at work, and outdoors, you must design for constant interruptions.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Begin with that need—the user’s need to feel in control of some part of his life—then try to dig deeper by asking, “So what?” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Mainstreamers are interested in getting the job done now; experts are interested in customizing their settings first. • Mainstreamers value ease of control; experts… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Simple user experiences need to work for a novice, or a mainstreamer who’s under pressure.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Visiting users in their workplaces was vital—if we’d simply imagined the manager at his desk we would have missed the crucial aspects. Watching people… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Wizards promise to make things simple by breaking them down into steps. The problem is they take control away from the user. Because of… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along with a… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“The thing to do, then, is to describe what the user does from the beginning to the end of their experience, remembering that it’s… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision… — Jo Cox Copy Share Image
Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role. — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He… — Peter Shaffer Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If… — Yves Behar Copy Share Image
I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me. — Roger Spottiswoode Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
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