Brenda Laurel
Brenda Laurel
Brenda Laurel, Ph.D. works as an independent scholar and consultant. She is an advocate for diversity and inclusiveness in video games, a "pioneer in developing virtual reality", a public speaker and an academic. She is also a board member of several companies and organizations. She was founder and chair of the Graduate Design Program at California College of the Arts. and of the Media Design graduate program at Art Center College of Design. She has worked for Atari, co-founded the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDesigner
CountryUnited States of America
Brenda Laurel quotes about
Every intelligent being enjoys complexity.
I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.
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.
You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user.
I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
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.