Quotes About User

If the system lets you make the error, it is badly designed. And if the system induces you to make the error, then it is really badly designed.

Engineers and designers who believe they do not need to watch the people who use their products are a major source of the many poor designs that confront us.

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When you add a plan section to your website, it's as though you're saying to your customer, "It's impossible to mess this up.

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The right questions a designer should be asking are: What is the problem you solve? How does your customer feel after you solve their problem?

RAND Tablet, a kind of high-tech sketch pad that a user could write or draw on with a stylus, with the results then appearing on a CRT display.

Human Factors in Electronics.

Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.

Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.

I'm interested in a lot of the languages that drive our culture. I'm interested in user experience as language or how societal malaise takes root.

User experience is important to strategy.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

Gracie, ill-behaved cretins can thrash your user interface, frag your hardware, unplug your peripherals, uninstall your components—but dreams are proprietary technology." "Huh?" "No one can take your dreams away.

PYTHONPATH and .pth files offer more permanent ways to modify the path — the first per user, and the second per installation.

Never go into user research to prove a point, and never create goals that seek to justify a position or reinforce a perspective. The process should aim to uncover what people really want and how they really are, not whether an opinion (whether yours or a stakeholder's) is correct

A polemicist might put it more pointedly: The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

Automation weakens the bond between tool and user not because computer-controlled systems are complex but because they ask so little of us.

The brighter the software, the dimmer the user.

takes a delay of just 250 milliseconds in page loading for people to start abandoning a site.

An overdose could induce respiratory failure: you fall into a sleep so deep and blissful that you stop breathing. At small hospitals, patients were being admitted close to death. In trailers and dingy apartments and remote farmhouses, police and paramedics would arrive to a familiar scene—the OxyContin overdose—and set about trying to revive the user.

In particular, I want to present the stages in the historical development of user interfaces in terms of the different sets of human skills they are designed to exploit.