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Quotes About User behavior

If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
~ Ma Huateng
Choosers are human, so designers should make life as easy as possible.
~ Richard H. Thaler
It would be great if companies could just magically know what I'm looking for on their website or what I'm coming to the website for.
~ Alfred Lin
Second is, don't try to change user behavior dramatically. If you are expecting people to dramatically change the way they do things, it's not going to happen. Try to make it such that it's a small change, yet an important one.
~ Jessica Livingston
Instead of trying to use your technology and expertise to make a better product for your users' standard behavior, experiment with inviting the users to change their behavior to make the product work dramatically better.
~ Seth Godin
If users are not doing what the designer intended (when users are investing time, effort, etc in your product), the designer may be asking them to do too much.
~ Nir Eyal
Knowing how people will use something is essential.
~ Donald Norman
Rewarding user behavior with increases in supply (inflationary rewards) has become a common practice to encourage actions such as supplying liquidity or using a particular platform. Consequently, many users engage in yield farming, taking actions to seek the highest possible rewards.
~ Campbell R. Harvey
With consumers buying two smartphones for every desktop computer they purchase, the demands, challenges and opportunities of the mobile space are reshaping our assumptions about design and user behaviour.
~ Jeffrey Zeldman
If your user base engagement is fledgeling, a token may not be the panacea unless it is properly threaded into the product, and user behavior is accompanying the token utility.
~ William Mougayar
Why is it drug addicts and computer afficionados are both called users?
~ Clifford Stoll
Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?
~ Clifford Stoll
We must design our technologies for the way people actually behave, not the way we would like them to behave. Moreover, the automobile does
~ Donald A. Norman
...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.
~ Jakob Nielsen
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.
~ Jakob Nielsen
The results also reinforce something that Nielsen wrote in 1997 after his first study of online reading. "How do users read on the web?" he asked then. His succinct answer: "They don't.
~ Unknown