11 Quotes by Bill Buxton

Sketches are social things. They are lonely outside the company of other sketches and related reference material. They are lonely if they are discarded as soon as they are done. And they definitely are happiest when everyone in the studio working on the project has spent time with them.

The only way to engineer the future tomorrow is to have lived in it yesterday.

Always be a beginner at something.

Always be a beginner at something, and always be in love with what you are beginning.

Ultimately, we are deluding ourselves if we think that the products that we design are the ‘things’ that we sell, rather than the individual, social and cultural experience that they engender, and the value and impact that they have. Design that ignores this is not worthy of the name.

The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling.

If I can see it, it’s a failure.

When we have this description, of what a sketch is, itsattributes, we can then start inventing new things thatshare those attributes, and therefore improve our currenttechnics by inventing new and better tools that help ussketch.

If history is any indication, we should assume that any technology that is going to have a significant impact over the next 10 years is already 10 years old!