Interface Designers Quotes & Sayings

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail. — Jakob Nielsen

It can and will be a more powerful sound but the orchestra has far more potential for expressive power. When I hear a great rock band it can make me feel alive, but when I hear a great orchestra it can make me feel human. — Glenn Branca

This fire in me, it's not just the hunger of a woman for a man - it's the hunger of all my people back of me, from all ages, for light, for the life higher! — Anzia Yezierska

Mr. Aguilar belonged to that race of privileged minds who are always right. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The whole sky was the colour of her skin. — Rainbow Rowell

The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural World. — Gabriel Brunsdon

A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box. — Alan Cooper

Well, Jenny thought, he certainly likes to cuddle. — Katie Allen

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A Symbol of getting easily fucked up. — Deyth Banger

I'm merely reminding you to embrace who you are and surround yourself with people who do the same. — Tamara Ireland Stone

I think [Winnie the Pooh] just looks at the world through honey-colored glasses, and everything is honey-fied and sweet for him, and that's not a bad outlook. — Jim Cummings

Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. — Anita Brookner

Because if you don't know how good something can be, you don't know how bad you'll miss it when it was gone. — Kristen Ashley

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. — Howard Rheingold

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. — Pearl S. Buck

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death. — Gary Numan

Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you. — Cassandra Clare

The key utility measure is user happiness. Speed of response and the size of the index are factors in user happiness. It seems reasonable to assume that relevance of results is the most important factor: blindingly fast, useless answers do not make a user happy. However, user perceptions do not always coincide with system designers' notions of quality. For example, user happiness commonly depends very strongly on user interface design issues, including the layout, clarity, and responsiveness of the user interface, which are independent of the quality of the results returned. — Christopher D. Manning

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel. — Ivan Chermayeff

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else. — Miguel Angel Ruiz