- Complexity is the Problem; Ease of Use is the Solution; Productivity is the Impact…
- Designing to Requirements and Walking on Water are Easy if Both are Frozen.
- If you can’t afford the time to do it right, how are you going to find the time to fix it up?
- “We don’t want to figure out what all those buttons do or why they are set up the way they are. We just want to get on with our lives and do our jobs well. When we make use of technology, we want to focus on achieving our goals, not on deciphering the technology.”
- If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said ‘faster horses’ – Henry Ford
- One test is worth a thousand expert opinions. – Bill Nye, the Science Guy
- A user expects that his programs be no more complicated to understand than the task they are doing for him.- Paul Heckel
- A user interface is well designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. – Joel Spolsky
- I’m not schooled in the science of human factors, but I suspect “surprise” is not an element of a robust user interface. – Chip Rosenthal
- Usability is not a quality that can be spread out to cover a poor design like a layer of peanut butter. – Clayton Lewis
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