Human-Centric Design Quotes

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence, the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary cultural forms and social structure.

In every detail a city should reflect that human beings are sacred and that they are equal.

People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.

Do what's good for humans, modeled on how humans already do things; ignore what's convenient for computers.

We treat human biology as our center point. Everyone already has a head-mounted display. It's your head!

Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.

Most industrial designers do a bottle or a pen or a computer - things that go right past your eye. When you see a chair, it's almost like a person. It's this great big thing in front of you. It hits you more.

It's important for automated cars to be able to drive in a human-like fashion - and that does mean adapting to the driving patterns around you.

Technological advances have always been driven more by a mind-set of 'I can' than 'I should' Technologists love to cram maximum functionality into their products. That's 'I can' thinking, which is driven by peer competition and market forces But this approach ignores the far more important question of how the consumer will actually use the device focus on what we should be doing, not just what we can.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.