Usability Quotes

“The user is not a co-designer.”

“User experience is not about how a product works on the inside. User experience is about how it works on the outside, where a person comes into contact with it.”

“The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”

“Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time.”

“On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave.”

“I started the GNOME project because I wanted a free desktop that my parents could use.”

“Technology should be an enabler, not a barrier.”

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

“Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need it to do.”

“The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.”

“Design dialogs to yield closure.”

“Simple is hard. Easy is harder. Invisible is hardest.”

“The problem is not that people are stupid. The problem is that people are busy.”

“Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.”

“The purpose of a programming system is to make a computer easy to use.”

“When I write code, I'm thinking about how people are going to use it, and how they're going to break it.”

“A design should be self-evident. You shouldn’t need a manual to explain it.”

“I think the ultimate goal is to make things that are so simple, so intuitive, that they become invisible.”

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

“The two most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.”