Henry Dreyfuss Professions : Industrial designer Born : March 2, 1904 Died : October 5, 1972 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by Henry Dreyfuss Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. Henry Dreyfuss design teamwork inspirational The products we design are going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some way used by people individually or en masse. If the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient-or just plain happier-the industrial designer has succeeded. Henry Dreyfuss failure happy hands If the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. If, on the other hand, people are made safer, more comfortable, more desirous of purchase, more efficient — or just plain happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded. Henry Dreyfuss designer hands people To look ahead one must learn to look back. Henry Dreyfuss looks The cost of a model is more than compensated for by future savings. It not only presents an accurate picture of the product for the executives, but it also gives the tool-makers and production men an opportunity to criticize and to present manufacturing problems. Henry Dreyfuss opportunity giving men Similar Authors Bruno Munari industrial-designer Brooks Stevens industrial-designer Adam Savage industrial-designer Dieter Rams industrial-designer Hartmut Esslinger industrial-designer Ferdinand Alexander Porsche industrial-designer All Authors