User Quotes

I am looking at it from the point of view of a harried user, which I am, and I believe that I am much more like the typical non-technical harried user than I am like the people who smoothly operate everything.

Ted Nelson
- People
- Believe
- Harried
In a way, my design works as much because the belt is comfortable for the user as it does because it is safer.

Nils Bohlin
- Belt
- Safer
- User

Every time you make the user make a decision they don’t care about, you have failed as a designer.

Aza Raskin
- Decision
- Designer
- User
We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn't forced to be the systems integrator.

Steve Jobs
- Apple
- User
- Android
The best thing software can be is easy, but the way to do this is to get the defaults right, not to limit users' choices.

Paul Graham
Sure, but competition is good for the user.

Wietse Venema
- Good
- Competition
- User
We humans have indeed always been adept at dovetailing our minds and skills to the shape of our current tools and aids. But when those tools and aids start dovetailing back - when our technologies actively, automatically, and continually tailor themselves to us, just as we do to them - then the line between tool and user becomes flimsy indeed.

Andy Clark
- Line
- Tool
- User
The technical explanation is that the market-sensitive risk models used by thousands of market participants work on the assumption that each user is the only person using them.

Avinash Persaud
- Risk
- Market
- User