Quotes About User

Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it's easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it.

The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.

I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'

I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.

Ask: is giving this choice to a user going to make the experience more interesting, valuable, or pleasurable? If the answer is no, leave it out.

Mies van der Rohe's mantra of "less is more" should be the microinteraction designer's mantra as well.

The best, most elegant microinteractions are often those that allow users a variety of verbs with the fewest possible nouns.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

I think it's a violation of user privacy to continue storing email addresses if you tell users your service is shutting down. I sign up for a service, and if you're no longer providing that service, why should you keep my information?

Another differentiator is that Skype is free and simple to set up, and it costs us virtually nothing for a new user to join the Skype network, which is why we can offer the service for free.

The companies that I really admire the most are the ones that have a deep visceral understanding of why people use their service, and they figure out ways of making money that are completely consistent with how people are feeling and what they are doing at the time.

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

Design is art that people use.

If the system lets you make the error, it is badly designed.

Design is successful only if the final product is successful—if people buy it, use it, and enjoy it, thus spreading the word. A design that people do not purchase is a failed design, no matter how great the design team might consider it.

Design is concerned with how things work, how they are controlled, and the nature of the interaction between people and technology.

So we must design our machines on the assumption that people will make errors.

POET, The Psychology of Everyday Things

complex system: good design requires consideration of the

The designer shouldn't think of a simple dichotomy between errors and correct behavior; rather, the entire interaction should be treated as a cooperative endeavor between person and machine, one in which misconceptions can arise on either side.

Affordances determine what actions are possible. Signifiers communicate where the action should take place.

Perceived affordances help people figure out what actions are possible without the need for labels or instructions.