Users Quotes - Page 3

• Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability.

  Tim Brown

  Technology, Design, Needs

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• Adding hardware to any computer is hard. The reality is, you're sticking in disks, trying to run installers. We do a very sophisticated installation and de-install but it's invisible to the user and happens almost instantaneously.

  Jeff Hawkins

  Running, Reality, Trying

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• I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, ‘Why Be a Meaningful User.’ Over time, however, I found that working with health IT made me a better and safer physician. Most importantly, my patients received better, safer care and improved outcomes.

  David Blumenthal

  Meaningful, Boston, Care

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• We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

  Larry Page

  Thinking, Evil, Entrepreneur

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• I think anything can be forced to converge. The problem is that products are about tradeoffs, and you begin to make tradeoffs to the point where what you have left at the end of the day doesn't please anyone. You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.

  Tim Cook

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Toasters

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• We cannot run away from the needs of LGBTI, sex workers, drug users, prisoners, and people with a disability.

  Michel Sidibe

  Running, Sex, People

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• Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts.

  Charles Stross

  Smart, Intelligent, Average

  Charles Stross (2005). “Accelerando”, p.283, Penguin

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• People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Writing, Keys, People

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• 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.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Errors, Simplicity

  Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger (2006). “Prioritizing Web Usability”, p.519, Pearson Education

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• Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

  Larry Tesler

  Simplicity, Complexity, Deals

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• The user of land should not be allowed to acquire rights of indefinite duration for single payments. For efficiency, for adequate revenue and for justice, every user of land should be required to make an annual payment to the local government equal to the current rental value of the land that he or she prevents others from using.

  Robert Solow

  Rights, Government, Land

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• I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners.

  Don Bluth

  Xbox, Memories, Home

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• Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Halloween, World, Language

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• The news automatically becomes the real world for the TV user and is not a substitute for reality, but is itself an immediate reality.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Real, Media, News

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• Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.

  Tim Cook

  Self, Design, Kind

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• Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

  Jesse James Garrett

  Smart, Choices, Design

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• Good design allows things to operate more efficiently, smoothly, and comfortably for the user. That's the real source of advantage. Businesses have started to understand this, so good design will become the price of entry. ... Customers appreciate good design. While they can't necessarily point out what specifically makes it good, they know it feels better. There's a visceral connection. They are willing to pay for it, if you give them a great experience.

  James P Hackett

  Real, Feel Better, Appreciate

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• It's because of this fundamental shift towards user-generated information that people will listen more to other people than to traditional resources.

  Eric Schmidt

  People, Information, Fundamentals

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• First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.

  David Filo

  People, Marketing, Add

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• Trail conflicts can and do occur among different user groups, among different users within the same user group, and as a result of factors not related to users' trail activities at all. In fact, no actual contact among trail users need occur for conflict to be felt.

  Roger Moore

  Groups, Different, Needs

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• The pilot is still the pilot, whether he is at a remote console or on the flight deck. With the potential for thousands of these unmanned aircraft in use years from now, the standards for pilot training need to be set high to ensure that those on the ground and other users of the airspace are not put in jeopardy.

  Mark Rosenker

  Years, Training, Needs

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• TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.

  John Poindexter

  Real, Data, Issues

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• When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  People, Fiction, Literature

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• I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

  Bruce Schneier

  Average, Answers, Internet Users

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• Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Website, Backdrop

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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