Brenda Laurel Quotes

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

  Brenda Laurel

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• 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

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

  Brenda Laurel

  Please, Users

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

  Brenda Laurel

  Believe, Design, Research

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• Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

  Brenda Laurel

  Intelligent, Enjoy, Complexity

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• 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

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• I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.

  Brenda Laurel

  Thinking, Television, Ends

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