Kathy Sierra Quotes

• Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

  Kathy Sierra

  Cameras, Stuff, Photographer

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• Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

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  Giving, Want, Competitors

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• The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

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  Creating, Secret, Building

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• Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

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  Easy, Wrong Things, Hard

  Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates (2015). “Badass: Making Users Awesome”, p.232, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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• In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

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  Effectiveness, Trying, Cases

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• It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

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  Doe, Awesome Things, Littles

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• Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

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  People, Want

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• Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

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  Guy, Where You Live, Next

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• The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

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  Writing, Reality, Alternate Realities

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• Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want.

  Kathy Sierra

  Giving, Want, Users

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• Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.

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  Motivation, Powerful, Feelings

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• We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial--it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.

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  Sex, Mean, Caring

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• Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

  Kathy Sierra

  Hate, Amplifiers

  "Why the Trolls Will Always Win" by Kathy Sierra, www.wired.com. October 08, 2014.

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