Quotes About User-friendly

We fundamentally want to make people's lives simpler. So we will look for technology that works toward that end.

What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.

SuprNova will be for the beginners. It's easier to use than most sites out there and we want everybody to be able to use it.

We love things that are convenient.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

What's great about the iPad and iPhone is that they are easy-on, easy-off.

Brandeis is so fast and loose and informal, I didn't have any problem offering a history course as a biologist. The barriers would be far more formidable, unscalable, at other institutions. But this is a user-friendly place. It's 'Shmedrik University' - that's a Yiddish word for even worse than schlemiel.

Accessible design is good design.

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.

Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to a bare minimum.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

It's completely idiot proof." I told them they've got it all wrong. I want a machine that is "idiot friendly.

People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

You know it wrong honey. I am friendly. I am not user-friendly.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.

The function of a good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.

one featured on its first brochure: "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Jobs felt that design simplicity should be linked to making products easy to use. Those goals do not always go together. Sometimes a design can be so sleek and simple that a user finds it intimidating or unfriendly to navigate. "The main thing in our design is that we have to

There was no CD tray, just a subtle slot. And as with the original Macintosh, there was no