Interface Design Quotes

#1. The best way to learn the value of good interface design is to use lots of interfaces - some good, some bad. Experience will teach you what works and what doesn't. Never assume that a painful interface is "just the way it is." Fix it, or wrap it in

Marijn Haverbeke

#2. IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film.

Douglas Trumbull

#3. A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

Jakob Nielsen

#4. The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design.

Steven Johnson

#5. Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

Jef Raskin

#6. Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

Francis Schaeffer

#7. 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.

Jakob Nielsen

#8. Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.

Jordan Mechner

#9. Paul's words are not the Words of God. They are the words of Paul- a vast difference.

John Shelby Spong

#10. That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

Steven Johnson

#11. Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place, or product.

Ellen Lupton

#12. Intuitive design happens when current knowledge is the same as the target knowledge.

Jared Spool

#13. You had to stop discussing politics or you would run right into it, causing no damage to anything but yourself.

Terry Pratchett

#14. So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.

Vic Morrow

#15. Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.

Weili Dai

#16. The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users.

Douglas Rushkoff

#17. A design is intuitive when people just know what to do and they don't have to go through any training to get there When a design is not intuitive, our attention moves away from what we're trying to accomplish to how we can get the interface to accomplish what we want.

Jared Spool

#18. Why can't you summon a command line and search your real-world home for 'Honda car keys,' and specify rooms in your house to search instead of folders or paths in your computer's home directory? It's a crippling design flaw in the real-world interface.

Richard Dooling

#19. Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Jakob Nielsen

#20. A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Jef Raskin

#21. The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit.

Bill McKibben

#22. No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Alan Cooper

#23. Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

Franklin Raines

#24. The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

Bruce Tognazzini

#25. How is the body, including the observing body, becoming a component of new machines, economies, apparatuses, whether social, libidinal, or technological? In what way is subjectivity becoming a precarious condition of interface between rationalized systems of exchange and networks of information?

Jonathan Crary