Quotes About User

A user and his leisure time are soon parted.

Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE

Facebook collects a lot of data from people and admits it. And it also collects data which isn't admitted. And Google does too. As for Microsoft, I don't know. But I do know that Windows has features that send data about the user.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

Two or more things are orthogonal if changes in one do not affect any of the others. In a well-designed system, the database code will be orthogonal to the user interface: you can change the interface without affecting the database, and swap databases without changing the interface.

A user interface can be prototyped as a drawing on a whiteboard, as a nonfunctional mock-up drawn with a paint program, or with an interface builder.

Gross's core insight, the one that now drives the entire search economy, is that the search term, as typed into a search box by an Internet user, is inherently valuable—it can be priced.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

It's really easy to insist that people read the manual. It's really easy to blame the user/student/prospect/customer for not trying hard, for being too stupid to get it, or for not caring enough to pay attention.

Whether something is remarkable isnt up to you, the creator. You can do your best, but the final decision is up to your user, not you.

The Bible app is designed to make absorbing the Word as frictionless as possible. For example, to make the Bible app habit easier to adopt, a user who prefers to not read at all can simply tap a small icon, which plays a professionally produced audio track, read with all the dramatic bravado of Charlton Heston himself.

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.

The purpose of the Library is to preserve the integrity of civilization... Why we do things will not change, but how we will do them will... If the Library is to fulfill its purpose in the future, librarians must commit to a culture of continuous operational change, accept risk and uncertainty as key properties of the profession, and uphold service to the user as our most valuable directive.

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.

the saving question was always, "How will this impact the user experience?

design the user interface first. This is a mandate at any organization that makes things people love to use.

The answer is simple: design the user interface first. This is a mandate at any organization that makes things people love to use.