“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.” ThinkingWorldNeedsEndsEnoughBigsHappensEnergyLevelsFocusUsersMicrosoftOraclesIbmUser Experience Author:Aaron Levie
“I took a job in the U.S. because I wanted to work on products that would get into end users' hands. In Norway, most of the jobs are in server software, niche stuff.” EndsHandsWantedJobsStuffProductsSoftwareUsersNicheNorwayServer Author:Jon Lech Johansen
“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.” EndsConnectionsCloudsApplicationUsersResidents Author:John W. Thompson
“In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.” WorldWantFirstsEndsBigsChoicesAbilityPayStepsMiddleInternetLimitsConcernPaidCustomersAccessUsersTollsProviders Author:Vinton Cerf
“Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but after a couple of years the blush fades from the rose. It's reality versus marketing.” YearsEndsRealityLevelsStageProductsCoupleBuiltManagementRoseIncludingMarketingLoyaltyUsersFadesVersusMicrosoft Author:Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
“IE isn't secure and isn't standards-compliant, which makes it unworkable both for end users and Web content creators.” EndsStandardsCreatorSecureUsersWeb Content Author:Paul Thurrott
“We must now turn from considering the necessary struggle with language arising, as it were, from its very nature and the nature of the society it serves to the more ominous threat to its integrity brought about neither by its innate inadequacy nor yet by the incompetence and carelessness of its ordinary users, but rather engineered deliberately by those who will manipulate words for their own ends.” EndsTurnsLanguageStruggleIntegrityOrdinaryThreatUsersConsideringManipulateInnateIncompetenceInadequacyCarelessnessOminous Book:Hopes and impediments: selected essays Source: Hopes and impediments: selected essays
“Most of the time spent wrestling with technologies that don't quite work yet is just not worth it for end users, however much fun it is for nerds.” EndsFunTechnologyWrestlingUsersWorth ItNerdTime SpentNot Worth It Book:The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.” PeopleNeedsEndsTeamFrontsToolsFocusedUsersSiteUser Experience Author:Jimmy Wales
“Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!” EndsProcessCompanyDesignFemaleInnovationConsumersEmployeeTargetUsersEmpoweredMarketplaceLikelihoodUtilizing Author:Indra Nooyi