80 User Friendly Quotes
Following is our list of user friendly quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about user experience.
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Famous User Friendly Quotes
Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way. — Niklas Zennstrom
In many cases the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. — Linus Torvalds
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful. — Alan Cooper
The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. — Grady Booch
The trend of design toward simplicity and accessibility in software happened for a reason—simple sells, simple’s usable and simple scales. — Rand Fishkin
A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. — Ben Shneiderman
Machines that fit the human environment, instead of forcing humans to enter theirs, will make using a computer as refreshing as taking a walk in the woods. — Mark Weiser
People get comfortable with technologies. — Jennifer Doudna
An API that isn't comprehensible isn't usable. — James Gosling
Website will not require me to point and click and drag and search. — Jensen Huang
Custom adapts itself to expediency. — Tacitus
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. — Raymond Loewy
Portability should be the default. — Larry Wall
The job of the designer is to make things understandable, usable, accessible, enjoyable... important to a public, that involves the public. — Paula Scher
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
Short User Friendly Quotes
- As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. — Jef Raskin
- We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. — Douglas Coupland
- The best design is the simplest one that works. — Albert Einstein
- If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. — Scott Adams
- OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it. — Nat Friedman
- The central idea is to create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible. — James Clear
- Make it simple. Make it memorable. Make it inviting to look at. Make it fun to read. — Leo Burnett
- Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. — Hal Abelson
- Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. — Linus Torvalds
- Pedestrian accessibility is the key. — Kim Delaney
User Interface Quotes
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. — Jakob Nielsen
Often your 'fixes' are actually removing capabilities that you had, because they were 'too confusing to the user'. GNOME seems to be developed by interface Nazis, where consistently the excuse for not doing something is not 'it's too complicated to do', but 'it would confuse users'. — Linus Torvalds
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
I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. — Jeff Bezos
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. — Joel Spolsky
The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. — Seth Godin
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. — Daniel J. Bernstein
It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear. — Steve Jobs
I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it. — Steve Jobs
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. — Steve Jobs
User Experience Quotes
Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves — Steve Jobs
Google doesn’t care how much time and effort you put into your content. They care about the user experience. — Brian Dean
SEO success comes to marketers who strive for stellar content and an impeccable user experience. — Brian Dean
User Experience Signals are the new SEO. — Brian Dean
A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with. — Jesse James Garrett
Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful. — Robert Brunner
My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders. — David Naylor
Drugs are a tragedy for addicts. But criminalizing their use converts that tragedy into a disaster for society, for users and non-users alike. Our experience with the prohibition of drugs is a replay of our experience with the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. — Milton Friedman
It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them. — Steve Jobs
When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it. — Jared Spool
People Writing About User Friendly
More User Friendly Quotes
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly'... Their best approach so far has been to take all the old brochures and stamp the words 'user-friendly' on the cover. — Bill Gates
I am intrigued enough to want to continue, and also to try and work with companies like Sony on modifying the cameras and making them more user-friendly and efficient. — Mike Figgis
Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality. — Lance Reddick
The polling of Internet users shows that friends recommendations are the most reliable driver behind purchasing decisions. Right now that market is largely untapped. Facebook and other social networks can allow that to happen. — Yuri Milner
Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly. — Ada Louise Huxtable
Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard. — Jimmy Page
Human beings today are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political and advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They've made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They're rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that. — J. G. Ballard
This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people. — Ram Dass
Microsoft has laid down the foundations for next-generation computing and is the founder in terms of providing user-friendly software - thereby increasing the number of novice users. — Arfa Karim
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. — Michael Ventura
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. — David Wolfe
We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. — Douglas Rushkoff
The real world is not user-friendly — Kelvin Throop III
The second stream of material that is going to come out of this project is a programming environment and a set of programming tools where we really want to focus again on the needs of the newbie. This environment is going to have to be extremely user-friendly. — Guido van Rossum
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence. — Milton Friedman
We're used to our users sharing a lot of stories with their friends. They are our chief ambassadors. Publishers are obviously an important partner for us, and we're always talking to them about how we can work together even more. — Alexander Klopping
In government, I'm a strong believer in the need for reform of government agencies and departments. They - they have gotten fat and sloppy, and they're not user friendly. They are inefficient. They cost too much. — Robert M. Gates
I actually think it almost works the other way sometimes: making a college textbook, say, look really "user friendly" tends to also make it look less "serious," even if nothing changes other than the design treatment. — Michael Bierut
I realized that there wasn't accessible, user-friendly content out there that really empowered people to find a way into the green movement. — Elizabeth Rogers
When designers intentionally trick users into inviting friends or blasting a message to their social networks, they may see some initial growth, but it comes at the expense of users' goodwill and trust. When people discover they've been duped, they vent their frustration and stop using the product. — Nir Eyal
Users who continually find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it. — Nir Eyal
I'm not massively into computers. I'm a fan of Macs because they're more user friendly, so I'm used to using them. — Matthew Kane
Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do. — Ben Parr
while everything else in our lives has gotten simpler, speedier, more microwavable and user-friendly, child-raising seems to have expanded to fill the time no longer available for it. — Barbara Ehrenreich
If car manufacturers made cars according to spec the same way software vendors make software according to spec, all five wheels would be of widely differing sizes, it would take one person to steer and another to work the pedals and yet another to operate the user-friendly menu-driven dashboard, and if it would not drive straight ahead without a lot of effort, civil engineers would respond by building spiraling roads around each city. — Erik Naggum
New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things. — Susan Sarandon
It's fantastic to be known as a company that responds quickly to users, shares great resources and friendly banter with them over Twitter, and forges relationships on Pinterest, Facebook, and every other social media site out there. — Kathryn Minshew
It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people. — Ellen Lupton
Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two. — Eric Daniels
Metaphors are not user-friendly. They're difficult to find and difficult to use well. Unfortunately, metaphors are a mainstay of good lyric writing-indeed of most creative writing. ...metaphors support lyrics like bones. — Pat Pattison
It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly. — Douglas Coupland
The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth is something to be respected and preserved, but dirt gets no respect. A farmer likes dirt. Suburbanites like to get rid of it. Dirt is the working layer of earth, and dealing with dirt is as much a part of farm life as dealing with manure. Neither is user-friendly but both are necessary. — E. L. Konigsburg
In spite of my own reservations about Bing's ability to convert Google users, I have to admit that the search engine does offer a genuine alternative to Google-style browsing, a more coherently organized selection of links, and a more advertiser-friendly environment through which to sell space and links. — Douglas Rushkoff
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