A design isn't finished until someone is using it.
— Brenda Laurel
The most viral Brenda Laurel quotes that are easy to memorize and remember
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.
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
Every intelligent being enjoys 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.
