Spider Robinson Quotes

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

Good design makes a product understandable.

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

Accessible design is good design.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Good design is good business.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

Good design is good business.

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.'

What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

Good design is thorough, down to the last detail.

We have always thought about design as being so much more than just the way something looks. It's the whole thing: the way something works on so many different levels. Ultimately, of course, design defines so much of our experience.

Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

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.

When done well, software is invisible.

I love well-designed products that combine form and functionality.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.

It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification.