Usability Quotes

Usability Quote of the day

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

Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.

If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.

80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from the beginning.

The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.

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.