Quotes About User

If two programs respond in the same way to every possible action by the user, then they render the same environment; if they would respond perceptibly differently to even one possible action, they render different environments.

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

When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea.

Products shouldn't just work well, they must unfold well.

When a user of the API complains and requests the element to be visible, you can still make it visible. However, don't do so sooner than requested and not without a convincing use case!

It's better to have people be happy using someone else's product than disgruntled using yours.

When you go to a voice-based interaction, you can't tell people, 'Ask me this question and structure it in this way.' And if they ask a question, and you have a bad answer, first time, maybe they'll be okay with it. Third time, they're going to say, 'This is a complete waste of time. I'm going away.'

At Mint, we developed five pending patents on our technology, ranging from categorization to the Ways to Save system that calculates how much a new financial product would save a user given their present financial situation.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first then implement to the interface design.

Usability testing is useful, necessary, and inefficient.

Stories are the building blocks of communication between developers and those who use their work. Story maps organize and structure these building blocks, and thus enhance this communication process — which is the most critical part of software development itself.

Interaction design is all about finding the user's truth and telling it as a narrative. Software development is all about breaking those narratives into tiny, functional chunks and implementing and integrating them.

Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.

If the Starbucks secret is a smile when you get your latte... ours is that the Web site adapts to the individual's taste.

But what Web services suggest is that the connection is always there between an application that is resident somewhere in the cloud, and a user who is somewhere on the other end of a connection.

All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.

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.

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

Another power I don't have," said Lissa ruefully. I grinned. "Hey, I have yet to meet any spirit user who can throw a punch like you can. That was poetry in motion, Liss." She groaned.

?Who?s a spirit user?? said Robert. ?Former spirit user,? said Victor, ?She became a Strigoi to get away from it.? ?Yes . . . always a lure to that . . . kill to live, live to kill. Immortality and freedom from these chains, but oh, what a loss . . .? said Robert.