Michael Graves Quotes

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also often feels good.

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

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

Attractive things work better.

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

Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it's this veneer - that the designers are handed this box and told, 'Make it look good!' That's not what we think design is. It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

I try firstly to make buildings humane.

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

We've spent a lot of time on ergonomics. That was something we found to be really important as we iterated on the headset, from developer kits to Crescent Bay to the Rift.

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

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Good design makes a product understandable.

Design has to work. Art does not.

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 and electronics industries—it's not your fault. Don't blame yourself: blame the designer.

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

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.