Elon Musk about products that need a manual to work

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk

A business magnate and investor. The founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, Tesla and other companies.

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UX Design

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Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better – because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Dieter Rams

A German industrial designer closely associated with functionalist school of industrial design.

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If people were brutally honest in their emails, the time we spend sorting through our in-boxes would surely decrease by half.

Ken Segall

Author and advertising creative director. Specializing in technology marketing, Segall was Steve Jobs' agency creative director for 12 years working for NeXT and Apple, and also for Dell, Intel and IBM.

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Emails & Messages
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The best way to answer difficult questions is to avoid the need to ask them.

Ken Kocienda

Software engineer and designer who worked for Apple for over fifteen years. Ken worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

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