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“I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient.”

Want Trying Enough Company Cameras Friendly Efficient Users Intrigued Sony Modifying User Friendly

Author:Mike Figgis

“To the designer, great design is beautiful design. A significant amount of effort must be placed into making the product attractive. To the client, great design is effective. It must bring in customers and meet the goals put forth to the designer in the original brief. To the user, great design is functional. It’s easy to read, easy to use and easy to get out of it what was promised Truly great design, then, is when these three perspectives are considered and implemented equally to create a final product that is beautiful, effective and functional.”

Use Beautiful Three Easy Goal Effort Design Products Perspective Amount Originals Finals Customers Significant Attractive Designer Users Clients Easy To Get Great Design Beautiful Design

Author:Joshua Johnson

“Think about what a user is going to type.”

Thinking Type Marketing Users

Author:Matt Cutts

“Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive.”

Thinking Children War Parent Family Drug Users Naive Tangled Tangled Webs

Author:Ogden Nash

“Flavor Five is a book with recipes using five ingredients to possibly be cooked in just five minutes. It will be very user-friendly for the home cook on the run.”

Book Home Running Five Minutes Cooks Friendly Ingredients Users Flavor Recipes Five Minutes User Friendly

Author:Rocco DiSpirito

“I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.”

Children Stories Use Sleep Heard Effects Leaving Intense Cooks Users Methamphetamine

Author:Rick Larsen

“We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.”

Writing Decided Friendly Software Users Rude User Friendly

Book:Microserfs: A Novel

Source: Microserfs: A Novel

“A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life of a community in a way that makes it indispensable. A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need.”

People Way Needs Bigs Beautiful Community Library Efficient Users Staff Indispensable Facility

Author:Vicki Myron

“I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.”

Keys Industry Encouragement Strategy Access Favors Recovery Addresses Capability Users Requirements

Author:Dorothy E. Denning

“Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.”

Source: How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom

“I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software incompatibility problems that, in terms of complexity, make the U.S. Tax Code look like Dr. Seuss.”

People Trying Looks Problem Reading Term Groups Internet Taxes Computer Messages Filled Solve Code Complexity Software Users Drs Incompatibility Internet Users

Book:Dave Barry in Cyberspace

Source: Dave Barry in Cyberspace

“The companies that get innovation right, again and again, are the ones that feel what their customers feel. That is true user-centered innovation”

Feels Company Design Innovation Customers Users Again And Again

Author:Sohrab Vossoughi

“In any institution-factory, university, health center, or whatever-there are a variety of interests that ought to be represented in decision-making: the work force itself, the community in which it is located, users of its products or services, institutions that compete for the same resources. These interests should be directly represented in democratic structures that displace and eliminate private ownership of the means of production or resources, an anachronism with no legitimacy.”

“The creative folks intuitively design what's best for the user, while data folks provide great insights. The true unicorns are those who can go end-to-end designing, building, measuring, analyzing, and iterating with a combination of user intuition and deep analytics.”

Ends Growth Creative Design Building Folks Insight Intuition Data Combination Users Measuring Unicorn Analyzing Analytics

Author:Matthew Humphreys

“When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.”

People Use Lines Technology Computer Billions Command Designer Users Replaced Programmers Interfaces Computer Technology User Interface

Author:Howard Rheingold

“If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.”

Ifs Enough Used Calling Users Trapped

Author:Jaron Lanier

“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

“Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few jobs allow you to do both at the same time, so enjoy.”

Humans Jobs Enjoy Company Technology Information Increase Profit Satisfaction Architecture Users Good Information Information Architecture

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“On the Internet, it's survival of the easiest.... Give users a good experience and they're apt to turn into frequent and loyal customers. But ... it's easy to turn to another supplier in the face of even a minor hiccup. Only if a site is extremely easy to use will anybody bother staying around.”

Ifs Giving Use Faces Turns Easy Internet Survival Customers Bother Staying Users Loyal Minors Site Suppliers Loyal Customers Good Experiences Hiccups

Author:Jakob Nielsen

“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

“Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.”

Ability Expectations Software Users Constrain

Book:Tog on Interface

Source: Tog on Interface

“Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.”

Knows Way Needs Use Order Normal Users

Author:Bruce Tognazzini

“Content is often the reason users come to your site.”

Reason Users Site

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.”

Stills Design Designer Satisfying Users Elegant Constraints Accommodate Good Design

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“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.”

Thinking Needs Mean Process Understanding Design Aspect Behave Users Incorporating Design Process

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.”

Ifs Needs Giving Long Term Steps Perspective Strategy Operations Long Term Plot Users Day To Day Consultants User Experience

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“I would not have the Justice Department prosecuting and raiding medical marijuana users. It's not a good use of our resources.”

Use Justice Resources Medical Department Marijuana Users Medical Marijuana Prosecuting Raiding

Author:Barack Obama

“User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.”

Mean Design Projects Users

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.”

Design Communication Appearance Designer Devices Users Good Design

Author:Donald A. Norman

“Designed to ‘Effectively Frustrate’: Copyright, Technology, and the Agency of Users.”

Technology Agency Users Copyright

Book:Wired Shut

Source: Wired Shut

“It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.”

People Pay Attention Design Reader Easier Pay Attention Get Better Users Clients

Author:Ellen Lupton

“I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing.”

Book Library Users

Author:Sara Sheridan

“There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.”

Black Pay Virtue Crime Drug Criminals Users Addict Prohibition

Author:Danny Sugerman

“The old computing was about what computers could do; the new computing is about what users can do. Successful technologies are those that are in harmony with users' needs. They must support relationships and activities that enrich the users' experiences.”

Needs Can Do Technology Support Successful Activity Computer Harmony Users Computing User Experience

Book:Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

Source: Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies

“I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.”

Made Stills Cases Products Investment Apples Users Fourth Plastic Fifth Epiphany Ipods

Author:Mary Meeker

“Always drink at least 8 ounces of water or a sugar-free decaffeinated beverage with every meal or snack. If you are a heavy caffeine user, gradually reduce caffeine intake to zero whenever possible.”

Ifs Water Drink Heavy Meals Wellness Zero Sugar Users Caffeine Snacks Beverages

Author:Barry Sears

“What is clear is that users own their data and should have control of how their data is used.”

Should Used Inspiring Clear Economic Should Have Data Users

Author:Marissa Mayer

“A few years ago, users of Internet services began to realize that when an online service is free, you're not the customer. You're the product.”

Years Realizing Products Internet Years Ago Entrepreneur Customers Online Users

Author:Tim Cook

“We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go.”

Should Years Stills Certain Language Existence Thousand Distance Satisfaction Deeper Users Thousand Years Gratification Exhilaration

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.”

Way Doe Science Design Comfortable Safety Users Belts Design Work

Author:Nils Bohlin

“... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.”

“Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.”

Simple Technology Influence Cost Behavior Benefits Tasks Increase Complexes Simplicity Users Ratios Computing Persuading

Book:Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

Source: Persuasive Technology: Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do

“Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.”

Needs Decision Company Simplicity Makers Users Day To Day Decision Makers

Author:Bill Jensen

“These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.”

Long Social Communication Connections Distance Instant Allowing Divides Users Site Torn Long Distance Social Relationships Instant Communication

Author:Mike Fitzpatrick

“Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.”

Sometimes Information Citizens Resources Users Bureaucrats

Author:Elinor Ostrom

“Many of the Huichols and North American peyotists claim that when one eats peyote, one is "tasting oneself: if the user is pure, this cactus is "sweet." Barbara Myerhoff, accompanying the Huichols during their 1965 and 1966 hunts, recorded that they urge new participants to "Chew it well. It is sweet, like tortillas.”

Ifs Wells Sweet Pure Claims Oneself Urges Users Hunts Psychedelic Participants Tasting Barbara Cactus Tortillas Peyote

Book:Psychedelics Encyclopedia

Source: Psychedelics Encyclopedia

“We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.”

Way Wanted Too Much Nice Machines Empowering Application Users Linux

Author:Miguel de Icaza

“Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.”

Long Seems Term Levels Highest Consequence Competition Rewards Long Term Users Steroid

Author:Howard Berman

“This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people.”

People Compassion Acceptance Friendly Users This Society Older People User Friendly

Book:One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

Source: One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life

“If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.”

People Ifs Firsts Moments Enjoy Quality Building Offers Letters Organization Users Joining User Experience

Author:Matt Mullenweg

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