Steve Ballmer Quotes

Accessible design is good design.

I know that there'll be a continuation of making the world more accessible for people with disabilities.

I like the iPhone, the iPad, all the various members of that family. But I like all the various technologies that are becoming available to make the world more accessible to people who are blind and with low vision. I also like that more and more people are committing themselves to close captioning so the deaf can really know what's going on. I like the position of making buildings more accessible by having ramps and various ways people who are paraplegic to be able to get around.

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

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

Good design should be available to everyone - and I do mean everyone. What I spent on the wheelchair I'm in could buy a small Mercedes. It's not only unfair to me; it's unfair to someone who's indigent but has the same needs. My goal is to make all objects affordable.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.

I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.

You cannot understand good design if you do not understand people; design is made for people.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

I want my work to be accessible to people.

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.

We want to galvanize people's imaginations. With enough political will and investment, we could make wheelchairs obsolete.

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

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.

Technology can be a great equalizer when it comes to health care, education - to the point where rich, poor, middle class can all get the same benefits.

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

To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matter, to a privileged social class? Design addresses itself to the need.

Good design is good business.

In the design process, there's a need to be culturally comprehensive.

The cost is minimal, but one of the things that you want in a universal design is to make the plan as open as you can... and to still have walls around bedrooms and that sort of thing, and to keep the corridors wide enough so the wheelchair can do a 360 in the corridor.