Top 7 Quotes by Brenda Laurel

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

Badass, Bad Ass, Design

Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.

Brenda Laurel

Mean, Heart, Technology

Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.102, MIT Press

You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.

Brenda Laurel

Please, Users

I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.

Brenda Laurel

Believe, Design, Research

Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

Brenda Laurel

Intelligent, Enjoy, Complexity

When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.

Brenda Laurel

Artist, People, Everyday

Brenda Laurel (2001). “Utopian Entrepreneur”, p.11, MIT Press