Quotes About User

Figure 1-3. The User Experience Honeycomb. Along

From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request.

I'm a Mac user. I think it depends on how you were brought up, and I was introduced to Apple quite early. They're certainly the best for visual stuff and film-directing.

I was an early user of AOL - so early, I didn't even have a number after my user name. For me, email was once vital, both for personal and business uses.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user….

I have made efforts to make you appear as a person with less anxiety, as you have commanded me to do on so many occasions. This is difficult to achieve, because in truth you are a person with very much anxiety. Perhaps you should be a drug user.

Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.

The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.

To put it simply, it doesn't matter how many other messaging apps are out there if all of them suck.

IOS can send the messages to anyone currently logged in to the device. It can also store the message so that a user can later look at the messages. The next few pages examine both topics.

Of course, a first-time computer user cannot map what they see on a screen to a prior digital experience. However, their cognitive processing of any digital artifact will still be based on natural language. Linguistically associating physical-world metaphors to on-screen actions and objects allows them to participate in a human-to-computer interaction.

The observers — members of Microsoft's User Research Group — diligently note each click, key press, and hesitation, hoping they'll learn the answer to the industry's big secret: why do so many people find computers difficult to use?

It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more user friendly.

The real interaction designer's decisions are based on what the user is trying to achieve.

Like putting an Armani suit on Attila the Hun, interface design only tells how to dress up an existing behavior.

You can blame the "stupid user" all you want, but you still have to staff those phones with expensive tech-support people if you want to sell or distribute within your company software that hasn't been designed.

Many developers and usability professionals still approach interface design by asking what the tasks are. Although this may get the job done, it won't produce much more than an incremental improvement: It won't provide a solution that differentiates your product in the market, and very often it won't really satisfy the user.

Interaction design is not guesswork.

People love photos. Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

Data warehouse support people should be physically located in the business user departments, and while on assignment, should spend all their waking hours devoted to the business content of the departments they serve. Such a relationship engenders trust and credibility with the business users, which ultimately is the "gold coin" for IT. Mistake

Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended.

man ... thinks of himself as a creator instead of a user, and this delusion is robbing him, not only of his natural heritage, but perhaps of his future.

Man is not the owner of mind but only a user. The nature owns mind, man hires only a small portion of it that too for a brief period.

If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as rejoiced in it. He had evidently included the pillow in his celebrations.