18 Quotes by Brenda Laurel

When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.

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.

Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.

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

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.

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

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

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

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