Design Improvement Quotes

I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.

I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

Informed clients are better clients, and they make for better design.

How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.

The best American manufacturers customize products to meet customer needs, reduce the time required to make them and constantly improve their design.

If there is a well thought-out design standard, it should be followed. In practice, great design comes from great designers. That is empirically the case. If a great designer did a first-rate standard, that model should be followed. Great design is not democratic; it comes from great designers. If the standard is lousy, then develop another standard.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.

There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

When we think about what might go wrong, we're more likely to design something that goes right.

When I look at other products, I naturally think of ways to improve upon what already exists.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

I think in terms of the work we're doing now a lot of the UI cleanup... I see it getting much prettier.

I tried a dozen different modifications that were rejected. But they all served as a path to the final design.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.

When somebody would come in with a sketch that was not so good, you figured out in a room how to make that sketch work.

Process innovation is different from product innovation. It's about how do you create a new product or develop a new product or manufacture a new product, but not a new product itself?

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

I have learned so much making first collection that I am excited to use all of it towards making the next one even better! It's been an amazing learning curve and experience.