Top 48 Quotes About User Experience
#1. If we're honest with ourselves, our user experience hadn't kept up with the competition. In the first ten years eBay created the market. Now we're positioning ourselves to innovate off our core platform. This is not a project. We're never done.
John Donahoe
#2. bringing together the professionals, such as experience designers, user experience researchers, front-end developers and prototypers, under a single umbrella.
Anonymous
#3. If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.
Jesse James Garrett
#4. Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful.
Robert Brunner
#5. Dropbox sweats the user experience details as commendably as it masters the considerable engineering challenges required to reliably sync files everywhere a user may need them.
Jeffrey Zeldman
#6. Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar
#7. Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs
#8. The entire customer or user experience-from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support-is going digital.
Colleen Jones
#9. Look at every 'revolutionary' brand or category killer, it had an app, or a feature, or a functionality, or a user experience nobody else at that point could offer. I refer to this as 'the Killer App' principle.
David Brier
#11. Most business models have focused on self interest instead of user experience. Those are the kinds of problems we solve to solve.
Tim Cook
#12. Within HTC, hundreds of ideas are tested and discarded to find those rare ideas that define the HTC user experience.
Cher Wang
#13. The user experience design of a product essentially lies between the intentions of the product and the characteristics of your user.
David Kadavy
#14. The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.
Marissa Mayer
#15. Beyond annoying our audience by trying to sound smart, we run the risk of making our audience feel dumb. In either case, this is not a good user experience for our audience. Avoid
Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
#16. website optimization, which is the art and science of enhancing the user experience of a website with the goal of converting users into customers. To see why this is important, you need to become
Richard Stokes
#17. Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.
Homaro Cantu
#18. What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.
Aaron Levie
#19. My videos are coming from the perspective of someone who bought the device, used it and is giving impressions on the actual usage. Sometimes 2 different behind-the-scenes engienering decisions will yield the same user experience, in which case I won't even mention it.
Marques Brownlee
#20. User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.
Evan Williams
#21. Mobile forced us to rethink the user experience and do something people would be able to carry out on in a couple of seconds on the mobile phone. By stripping out all the work the user used to do and putting that on the company, we were able to create a much better user experience.
Logan Green
#22. The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.
Fred Wilson
#23. Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.
John Sculley
#24. The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.
John Sculley
#25. The biggest challenge for open source is that as it enters the consumer market, as projects like WordPress and Firefox have done, you have to create a user experience that is on par or better than the proprietary alternatives.
Matt Mullenweg
#26. What you have in most education software is that they're catering to the decision-maker who makes the budget allocations, and that decision-maker has a lot of check boxes. Does it do this? Check. Does it do that? Check. They could care less about the end user experience.
Salman Khan
#27. I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.
Jimmy Wales
#28. If we continue to treat content as an extra to information architecture, to content management or to anything else, we miss a bright opportunity to influence users. Content is not a nice-to-have extra. Content is a star of the user experience show. Let's make content shine.
Colleen Jones
#29. There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.
Jim C. Walton
#30. If you're building a startup or any sort of organization, take a few moments to reflect on the qualities that the people you most enjoy working with embody and the user experience of new people joining your organization, from the offer letter to their first day.
Matt Mullenweg
#32. Many people make their way to user experience by crossing over from an adjacent field. These crossovers are the people who are carrying UX forward, taking it to new levels and new organizations.
Leah Buley
#33. Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.
Justin Rosenstein
#34. If a product feature or user design experience isn't achieving virility, it's wrong, plain and simple. In the old days, the product team would come up with something, and the marketing team had to figure out how to sell it to the public, either by educating them or using old-fashioned
Jose Casanova
#35. Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.
Marissa Mayer
#36. Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.
Susan Wojcicki
#37. I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad.
Steve Ballmer
#39. I think it's more accurate to think of aesthetics as a key ingredient in a recipe, as opposed to the icing on the cake.
Stephen P. Anderson
#40. Pay attention to what users do, not what they say.
Jakob Nielsen
#41. A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren't really there to begin with.
Jesse James Garrett
#42. Microsoft could help Facebook with one of the biggest challenges, namely monetizing its traffic without reducing the user's experience. It's obvious that Microsoft needs traffic and Facebook needs search.
David Einhorn
#43. If you want a great site, you've got to test. After you've worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can't see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it.
Steve Krug
#44. Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
Patrick Collison
#45. Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly ...
Ada Louise Huxtable
#46. From experience, I came to learn that ayahuasca bestows upon the user knowledge about a variety of topics, not only consciousness and perception, but also leads one to realize that what we perceive is an illusion.
Pablo Amaringo
#47. We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.
Susan Wojcicki
#48. The liberation children experience when they discover the Internet is quickly counteracted by the lure of e-commerce web sites, which are customized to each individual user's psychological profile in order to maximize their effectiveness.
Douglas Rushkoff
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