Quotes About User-centric

I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do - that is so easy to use that we don't even have to think about it. That's what the dream is.

Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.

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

We don't want to go starting completely separate businesses that do nothing for our user base.

As Chief Product Officer, I lead our product team to create simple, intuitive user experiences.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.

We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

The better you work to find the pain point and problem facing a diversity of users, the more clearly you can DEFINE the goal when you implement the process for culturally intelligent innovation.

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

As for building something users love, here are some general tips. Start by making something clean and simple that you would want to use yourself. Get a version 1.0 out fast, then continue to improve the software, listening closely to users as you do. The customer is always right, but different customers are right about different things; the least sophisticated users show you what you need to simplify and clarify, and the most sophisticated tell you what features you need to add.

You have to be able to see things from the user's point of view.

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.

the value of prototyping: Potential users of ideas are more comfortable sharing their honest reactions when it's rough

IDEO is one of the world's most respected design firms—the creator of everything from those fat-handled toothbrushes for kids to Apple Computer's first mouse to the Palm V. How do they do it? The secret would make an MBA squirm: Empathy. In the IDEO universe, great design doesn't begin with a cool drawing or a nifty gadget. It begins with a deep and empathic understanding of people.

The essence of design... lies in the process of discovering a problem shared by many people and trying to solve it.

The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.

We're very genuinely designing the best products that we can for people.

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

Really great products, like @nest, have #design baked in from the beginning instead of slapped on at the end.

The design should make the product speak to you.

Designing your product for monetization first, and people second will probably leave you with neither.