Users Quotes - Page 4

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

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Principles, Elements

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

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• What users want is convenience and results.

  Jef Raskin

  Design, Want, Results

  Jef Raskin (2000). “The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems”, p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product architecture is consequently interdependent. Management always beats markets when there is not sufficient information.

  Clayton Christensen

  Not Good Enough, Information, Needs

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• It's better to have a few users love your product than for a lot of users to sort of like it.

  Sam Altman

  Love You, Products

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• I'm actually not a cannabis user frequently.

  Meghan McCain

  Cannabis

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• Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.

  Brian Kernighan

  Class, Debugging, Bugs

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• The pace of change for entrepreneurs is rapidly accelerating, and the cost and risk of launching a new business and getting off the ground is just amazing. The ability to gain user feedback really quickly and adapt to what your consumers want is totally different with the web as it is now. But finding a new market, helping people and taking that original idea and turning it into a business is really exciting right now.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Ideas, People, Entrepreneur

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• The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

  Henri Lefebvre

  Space

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• The neighborhoods I grew up in were poor and full of drug users. I don't think you have to look that hard to find those kinds of lives. But I also don't think you have to have experienced it really close to be able to empathize.

  Jess Walter

  Thinking, Drug, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Users are not designers.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Designer

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• If you could utilize the resources of the end users' computers, you could do things much more efficiently.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Computer, Ends, Resources

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• The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

  Avinash Persaud

  Risk, Management, Assumption

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• In computers, every 'new explosion' was set off by a software product that allowed users to program differently.

  Alan Kay

  Statistics, Computer, Program

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• In Tetrad form, the artifact is seen to be not neutral or passive, bur an active logos or utterance of the human mind or body that transforms the user and his ground.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Mind, Utterance

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• I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user.

  John Lydon

  England, Heroin

  "The Filth and the Fury". Documentary, Biography, Music, www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

  Ted Nelson

  Believe, Views, People

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• A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds.

  Ted Nelson

  Simple, Beginners, Emergencies

  "A different vision of the computer world". sydney.edu.au. April 4, 2011.

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• When a plane lands in the Hudson and there's a Twitter user on the ferry taking a picture of it, Boom. That's it. The water is still splashing. Here's the photo of the thing.

  Biz Stone

  Land, Water, Splashing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Real climate solutions are ones that steer these interventions to systematically disperse and devolve power and control to the community level, whether through community-controlled renewable energy, local organic agriculture or transit systems genuinely accountable to their users.

  Naomi Klein

  Real, Agriculture, Community

  "Why Conservatives Deny Climate Change" by Bill Shireman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2013.

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• Reddit names are unconnected to real-world identities and it's commonplace for users to create 'throwaway' accounts to reveal sensitive information.

  Ethan Zuckerman

  Real, Names, Identity

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• Treatment is not now available for almost half of those who would benefit from it. Yet we are willing to build more and more jails in which to isolate drug users even though at one-seventh the cost of building and maintaining jail space and pursuing, detaining, and prosecuting the drug user, we could subsidize commensurately effective medical care and psychological treatment.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Jail, Space, Drug

  William F. Buckley Jr.'s Address to the New York Bar Association, www.nationalreview.com. July 28, 2014.

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• 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.

  Mike Fitzpatrick

  Distance, Communication, Long

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• Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Doe, Program, Results

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• It is my belief that industry and government around the world should work even more closely to protect the privacy and security of Internet users, and promote the exchange of ideas, while respecting legitimate government considerations.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Ideas, World

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• If you do not care about your end user immensely, especially in the next few years, your brand will die.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Years, Care, Next

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