Conditions Quote by Niels Diffrient Download Open image “Why would you design something if it didn't improve the human condition?” — Niels Diffrient ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conditions Design Human condition Humans Ifs Inspirational
The human condition today is better than it's ever been, and technology is one of the reasons for that. — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
There's always been trying at some stage to design people. And it will always be presented initially as a positive thing, as a way… — Maria Doyle Kennedy Copy Share Image
Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
Humans don't really improve on our own functioning, we only interfere with it, distort it, and disguise it. — Frederick Salomon Perls Copy Share Image
Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole point of design is to make people feel better about themselves. — Geoffrey Beene Copy Share Image
Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering. — Ralph Merkle Copy Share Image
The human condition is the human condition, and what we try to do is illuminate the human condition. — Sissy Spacek Copy Share Image
Design is... above all an effort to improve reality... I always try to begin with considerations of its function... I ask myself, who needs… — Gianfranco Frattini Copy Share Image
Technology challenges us to look at our human values. We can try to use technology to cure Parkinson's or Alzheimer's, which would be a… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The best way to know what people want is not by asking them, but by understanding them, — Niels Diffrient Copy Share Image
Today the telephone takes precedence over everything. It reaches a point of terrorism, particularly at dinnertime. — Niels Diffrient Copy Share Image
My ideal office wouldn't have a chair. You would do two things there: stand up or lie down. These are the body's most natural… — Niels Diffrient Copy Share Image
When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would… — Niels Diffrient Copy Share Image
One can put some trust in the gratitude of a sovereign, and also in that of his family; under certain conditions, one can even… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution. — Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
History is, in its essentials, the science of change. It knows and it teaches that it is impossible to find two events that are… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A good aim surveys the present state of experience of pupils, and forming a tentative plan of treatment, keeps the plan constantly in view… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The God in whose hands are all our days and ways, did cast into my hand one day a book of Martin Luthers; it… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
It clearly follows that to make men moral it is necessary to make their social environment moral. And that can be done in only… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
The so-called evils are evils only in relation to a certain thing, and that which is evil in relation to a certain existing thing,… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Experiences in order to be educative must lead out into an expanding world of subject matter, a subject matter of facts or information and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
