Users Quotes

Users Quote of the day

We cannot choose one desktop over the other - Gnome or KDE - because there's users for both code bases.

Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'

To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.

An honest design communicates solely the functions and values it offers. It does not attempt to manipulate buyers and users with promises it cannot keep.

Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.

Skype is easy enough to use so that people don't need to be tech savvy - a lot of users just want to communicate with their friends and family, and they find this is the easiest, cheapest way.

I don't expect an overnight change of all desktops to what the US Military used to call B3 level security. And even that would not stop users from shooting themselves into the foot.

On engagement, we're already seeing that mobile users are more likely to be daily active users than desktop users. They're more likely to use Facebook six or seven days of the week.

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

Give users what they actually want, not what they say they want. And whatever you do, don't give them new features just because your competitors have them!

Designers are not users.

The more users' expectations prove right, the more they will feel in control of the system and the more they will like it.

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

Inher­ent qual­ity is part of absolute qual­ity and with­out it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always sense it.

To the user, the interface is the product.

My practical approach based on experience is to create a website for real Internet users, not for search engine spiders.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

A primary cause of complexity is that software vendors uncritically adopt almost any feature that users want.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

When creating great experiences, it's not so much about doing what users expect. Instead, it's about creating a design that clearly meets their needs at the instant they need it.

We will have more Internet, larger numbers of users, more mobile access, more speed, more things online and more appliances we can control over the Internet.

...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

Users spend most of their time on other sites. This means that users prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already know.

Words have users, but as well, users have words. And it is the users that establish the world's realities.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom.

I have heard repeated stories of meth users leaving their children unattended for days as they cook, use and then sleep off the intense effects of methamphetamine.

Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so.

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed.

There is an underlying, fundamental reliance on the Internet, which continues to grow in the number of users, country penetration and both fixed and wireless broadband access.

Studies show that people that are on welfare are higher users of drugs than people not on welfare.

It is easier to talk than to listen. Pay attention to your clients, your users, your readers, and your friends. Your design will get better as you listen to other people.

The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.

Usually its users discover sooner or later that their program does not deliver all the desired results, or worse, that the results requested were not the ones really needed.

The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell.

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as 'users'.

Instead of relying on expensive marketing, habit-forming companies link their services to the users' daily routines and emotions.