Product Functionality Quotes

Good design makes a product understandable.

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

At the end of the day, what matters is whether your product works and whether people like it.

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

'Commercial' is not the word that has to be said only by CEOs. It has to be something that is maybe the essence of design, because design has some sort of art in it and creation, but it's also some object that you have to use. There is also this pragmatic end to it.

The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

People who are using your product and putting up with all these issues, means that they are not actually the biggest problems.

A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

Ultimately, we're making and selling a consumer good that needs to work and that needs to make customers happy.

We want to make sure everyone has a great experience. When they buy the product and take home and plug it in, we want to make sure that first experience is comfortable and everything is there.

Industrial design is a superficial practice. You use your approach regardless of the project because there is no time for a deep understanding of a single product.

Technology for technology's sake is not innovation. What we in the industry have to be concerned about is what products do, as opposed to what the processing power is.

The hardware business is all about per-unit manufacturing cost and functionality. The services business is less asset-intensive and more dependent on people.

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

But I think technology advertising will have to stop addressing how products are made and concentrate more on what a product will do for the consumer.

When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When the product isn't yet good enough, the way you compete is by making better products. In order to make better products, the architecture of the product has to be interdependent and proprietary in character.

We will make our products work out of the box.

During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

It's important for me to sell a product that works.

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.