Quotes About User-centric

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.

The next time you're caught in a room full of smart people doing something dumb (like trying to anticipate what your users will do), tune them out, flip open your laptop, and start prototyping.

What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.

We believe we can put out the best products if our engineering workforce has the same characteristics as our user.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

strongly agreed with the statement that their need information came from personal needs they

It is becoming progressively easier for many users to get precisely what they want by designing it for themselves.

offer great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their

great advantages over the manufacturer-centric innovation development systems that have been the mainstay of commerce for hundreds of years. Users that innovate can develop exactly what they want, rather than relying on manufacturers to act as their (often very imperfect) agents. Moreover, individual

Customers don't care how much time something takes to build. They care only if it serves their needs.

I think that we're on a path that Apple was determined to be on since the '70s, which was to try and make technology relevant and personal.

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.

We lacked something that is the key to a successful startup, and it was bigger than sound quality. It was emotional investment. If you don't love what you're building, if you're not an avid user yourself, then you will most likely fail even if you're doing everything else right.

People need to differentiate us from companies like Yahoo! and Facebook that collect your data and have it sitting on their servers. We want to know as little about our users as possible.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

Though he was neither an engineer nor a computer geek, he helped create one gotta-have-it product after another by always designing it with you and me, the actual users, in mind. Unknown to those listening to him that day, more insanely

It is incredibly powerful if you solve the problem you actually have yourself. It's really tough to develop a good product when you don't have very close proximity to the people who actually use your product. The closest proximity you can have to those people is to be that person.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.

the reason buyers love these blue ocean offerings isn't because they involve bleeding-edge technology per se, but because these offerings make the technology essentially disappear from buyers' minds. The products and services are so simple, easy to use, fun, and productive that buyers fall in love with them.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

The exciting new thing, call it Internet.2, would be where links were updated and moved depending on where people click. That would give you the kind of content screening that you don't get at the moment.

You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.