Suyog Quotes & Sayings

Familiarity trumps functionality. — Suyog Ketkar

Make difference with the uniformity; make uniformity the difference. — Suyog Ketkar

In order to do something you've never done,
you've got to become someone you've never been. I
think that all of us have great potential within us,
but greatness is a choice; it's not our destiny. And in
the pursuit of our dreams we are introduced to trials,
failures and disappointments , which take us to the
door of discovery and greatness. — Les Brown

Brevity is pivotal to clarity. — Suyog Ketkar

Memories are interesting. Interesting because they are faded yet detailed, pictured yet difficult to decipher, yelling yet mute, beautiful yet dreadful, magical yet logical, and familiar yet new. We listen; we encounter; we observe; we do; we learn; and, we talk. Everything we do or experience becomes our memory. Indeed, memories are interesting. — Suyog Ketkar

The design's intuitiveness is factorized based on the stored procedures: the more intuitive the design is, the more the users can remember and recall. — Suyog Ketkar

The success of the documentation efforts lies in the users being able to correctly locate and use the resolutions to their issues on time and retain that knowledge for later use. — Suyog Ketkar

The fact is that as writers we need to make our
mark. But, to do that, we must help our words make their mark. It is that simple; it is that difficult. — Suyog Ketkar

I'm a lot less precious than I used to be about putting things out, for better or for worse. The result of a public that has a very high consumption rate and turnover rate is people listen to more music but spend less time with individual bits of music. — Trent Reznor

We are trained to teach users but are not trained to help them learn. — Suyog Ketkar

Contextualization lies in bringing out the right messages from the abundant content; in sandwiching the subject between the background of information and the foreground of its utility. — Suyog Ketkar

The preoccupation of American historical and literary scholars with the New England Puritans must seem to outsiders like an obsession. — Edmund Morgan

TV shapes thought as surely as language shapes it. — Jennifer Stone

As a technical communicator, I am an enabler of
information. — Suyog Ketkar

I'm a vegetarian, but my family isn't. If I can keep everything in my house healthy, I don't have to worry as much when I eat out. — Elaine Irwin

I started out in a heavy metal band with a guy who could really play guitar, and I thought the only thing missing from Guided By Voices was a lead guitarist. In the early days, I would bring people in just to play leads, like Greg Demos and Steve Wilbur. — Robert Pollard

If we can get the design right, we can reduce the experiential differences between the first-time and the repeated usage of the application. — Suyog Ketkar

How much ever we may underpin cognitive learning theories in technical communication and document design, the users invariably learn more when they are unknowingly
involved in the learning process: users learn more when they aren't learning. Conclusively, we must focus on experimentation and empowerment, and not on learning alone. — Suyog Ketkar

Users notice good design only when it is missing. — Suyog Ketkar

We are driven by our necessities, which are driven by our situations, which are driven by our decisions, which surprisingly are driven by our necessities. So, what do we make of it? It all begins and ends with understanding the users' needs. — Suyog Ketkar

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand. — Judah Friedlander