Kathy Sierra Quotes

#1. The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project.

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#2. Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier.

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#3. Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

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#4. Upgrade your user, not your product. Value is less about the stuff and more about the stuff the stuff enables. Don't build better cameras - build better photographers.

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#5. Amazing, powerful, inspirational - those adjectives might make me sound like a fawning fan, but REWORK is that useful. Be prepared for a new feeling of clarity and motivation.

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#6. In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.

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#7. 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!

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#8. Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

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#9. It does not matter how awesome your product is or your presentation or your post. Your awesome thing matters ONLY to the extent that it serves the user's ability to be a little more awesome.

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#10. We are all human, and caring about the way something looks and feels does not mean we're superficial
it means we're human. We don't need to exploit sex to recognize that a certain amount of sexiness is both pleasurable and natural.

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

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#12. Make the right things easy and the wrong things hard to do.

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#13. It's not what you know, it's when you know it.

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