Best Usability Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.”

Technology Design Thousand Interfaces Usability Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design Great Design Design And Art Design Inspiration Best Design Art Design Funny Graphic Design Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Author:Ben Shneiderman

“Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.”

Feels Feelings Understanding Design Usability

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.”

Should Hands Pleasure Brain Design Hand In Hand Usability Beauty And Brains

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones.”

Needs Mean Helping Risk Development Resources Increase Errors Simplicity Developing Features Description More Time Fewer Users Refining Documentation Usability

Book:Prioritizing Web Usability

Source: Prioritizing Web Usability

“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.”

Use Design Tables Planning Construction Site Hammers Erasers Usability Drafting Construction Sites

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.”

Principles Design Elements Remove Users Interfaces Usability User Interface

Book:Designing Web Usability

Source: Designing Web Usability

“Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.”

Way Care Growth Mistake Love You Willing Making Mistakes Like Love Usability Willing To Change

Author:Jeffrey Zeldman

“On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here?”

People Ifs Hard States Use Lost Difficult Can Do Answers Company Failing Conditions Information Keys Offers Survival Notes Patterns Users Site Website Usability

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.”

Ifs Problem Successful Wonderful Failing Design Produce Products Computer Solve Features Designer Problems And Solutions Interfaces Usability

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.”

Years Has Beens Use Lost Economy Development Cost Projects Method Productivity Billions Software Engineering Inadequate Software Development Usability

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.”

World Easy Environment Ultimate Customers Empowering Elsewhere Mice Competitors Clicks Usability

Book:Designing Web Usability

Source: Designing Web Usability

“Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.”

Ifs Products Customers Usability

Book:Designing Web Usability

Source: Designing Web Usability

“The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.”

People Years Lasts Attitude Accepting Design Tests Innovation Users Last Year Request Prevailing Reluctance Usability Web Design

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.”

Use Alphabet Usability

Author:Peter Morville

“Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.”

Products Designer Inaccessible Usability

Author:James Dyson

“Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.”

Ifs Would Be Easy Written Streets Quiet Clean Ugly Plenty Beer Engineers Bathroom Lit Pouring Menus Nightclubs Bartender Coyotes Usability Coyote Ugly

Author:Joel Spolsky

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