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Industrial Design

Industrial Design

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We designers create tools. Tools that you can live in, sit on, eat with, tools that enable communication and support learning, creating, and mending. Our tools can be powerful, they can be beautiful, and on many occasions they’re not motivated by understood or articulated needs.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Industrial Design
  • Purpose of Design
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If we design and construct products in such a way that the people who use them achieve their goals, these people will be satisfied, effective, and happy and will gladly pay for the products and recommend that others do the same.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
  • Product Development
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Simplicity is not the absence of clutter, that’s a consequence of simplicity. Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product. The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That’s not simple.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Industrial Design
  • Simplicity
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Products designed and built to achieve business goals alone will eventually fail; personal goals of users need to be addressed.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
  • Product Development
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When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. On the other hand, if people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient — or just happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss

An American industrial engineer, renowned for designing and improving the usability of consumer products such as Hoover vacuum cleaner or the tabletop telephone.

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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Dieter Rams on Product Design
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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.

Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams

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

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Principles
  • Industrial Design
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When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Industrial Design
  • Intuitive Design
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If you make a startlingly beautiful and original design, the front face of your product doesn’t need to bear neither the company logo nor the name of the product. It stands for itself. It becomes a cultural icon.

Christopher Stringer
Christopher Stringer

An industrial designer, formerly working for Apple. During his 22 years at Apple, he contributed to the design of the PowerBook, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch.

  • Design & Arts
  • Branding
  • Industrial Design
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The excellence of a good design is in direct proportion to its clarity and simplicity.

Vince Lombardi
Vince Lombardi

An American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).

  • Design & Arts
  • Other
  • Clarity
  • Industrial Design
  • Simplicity
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Jony Ive on Being Better
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It is very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Jony Ive
Jony Ive

Former Chief Design Officer of Apple, currently serving as a Chancellor of the Royal College of Art.

  • Design & Arts
  • Being Better
  • Creativity
  • Industrial Design
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