Usability Quotes

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“Design dialogs to yield closure.”

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

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

“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible.”

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

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

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

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

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

“Strive for consistency.”

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

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

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