Web Usability Quotes & Sayings

I think I preferred it when you wanted to kill me." "Sometimes I think so, too. — Sarah J. Maas

Whenever I have a few hours to dive into a book, I am happy. — Birgitte Hjort Sorensen

The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway. — Lionel Richie

Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it. — Jakob Nielsen

Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues. — Steve Krug

On the Web, usability is a necessary condition for survival. If a website is difficult to use, people leave. If the homepage fails to clearly state what a company offers and what users can do on the site, people leave. If users get lost on a website, they leave. If a website's information is hard to read or doesn't answer users' key questions, they leave. Note a pattern here? — Jakob Nielsen

There was no movie ending. There was only ending. — Alex Flinn

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived. — Robert Jordan

It doesn't matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice. — Steve Krug

The more you watch users carefully and listen to them articulate their intentions, motivations, and thought processes, the more you realize that their individual reactions to Web pages are based on so many variables that attempts to describe users in terms of one-dimensional likes and dislikes are futile and counter-productive. Good design, on the other hand, takes this complexity into account. — Steve Krug

When you're tired, sleep. Don't watch stupid tv or play games on your phone. Sleep, and then get up early, and do the stuff you hope you'll be known for after you die. — Maggie Stiefvater

May the stars watch over you. — Christopher Paolini

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find. — Peter Morville

Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process. — Rem Koolhaas

Rob Mullins' musical abilities are unquestionable. — Hubert Laws

Chock them so ... full of "facts" they feel stuffed, but absolutely "brilliant" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving. — Ray Bradbury

As a rule, conventions only become conventions if they work. — Steve Krug

If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something different. — Bella Hadid

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters. — John C. Maxwell

If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it. — Steve Krug

In reality, though, most of the time we don't choose the best option - we choose the first reasonable option, a strategy known as satisficing. — Steve Krug