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User experience is important to strategy, -- Nathan Shedroff
Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two. -- Eric Daniels
User interface is customer service for the computer. -- Julie Larson-Green
User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project. -- Donald A. Norman
User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies. -- Nir Eyal
User-generated content is not done by professionals. The best user-generated content eventually becomes those people gravitated in the professional world. -- Michael Eisner
There is no such thing as "the user". Users... come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and they have widely varying information needs... -- Hans H Wellisch
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be background noise. -- Michael Eisner
User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process. -- Jesse James Garrett
Users want relevant content as advertising. As a result, the distinction between advertising and content is going away. All that matters to a user is relevancy. -- Shailesh Rao
Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did. -- Fred Wilson
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
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. -- Jeff Bezos
A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Good design keeps the user happy, the manufacturer in the black and the aesthete unoffended. -- Raymond Loewy
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user. -- Tim Cook
I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'. -- Bruce Schneier
Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health. -- Howard Berman
Every user of the river down here understands that a healthy river is absolutely vital for a healthy economy and a healthy tourism industry. -- Jay Weatherill
My background was computer science and business school, so eventually I worked my way up where I was running product groups - development, testing, marketing, user education. -- Melinda Gates
The critical thing in developing software is not the program, it's the design. It is translating understanding of user needs into something that can be realized as a computer program. -- Mitch Kapor
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
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user. -- Bill Gates
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
A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. -- Milan Kundera
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
I think then, when we started receiving the first of the user feedback, feedback from people that I had not specifically told about it, but had spread from friend to friend and then they were giving us feedback. -- Shawn Fanning
I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.' -- Yishan Wong
If an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. -- Edward Snowden
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. -- Steve Jobs
You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. -- Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years. -- Didier Sornette
Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. -- Larry Ellison
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Working with lots of old media clients, I've had a front-row seat on the ascension of new social players and the decline of traditional news outlets. And it's clear to me that old media has an awful lot to learn from social media, in particular in five key areas: relevance, distribution, velocity, monetization, and user experience. -- Ryan Holmes
I have done a pretty good job of partitioning my life digitally, posting utterances and stories that I'm happy to share with anyone on Twitter, leaving a few sparse comments and 'Likes' on Facebook (I'm not a huge user of the service, I'll be honest), and sending any number of photos to thousands of 'followers' on Instagram and Tumblr. -- John Battelle
Don't lose sight of user delight. -- Mark Pincus
Your customer is not your user -- Clara Shih
I think every Internet user likes personalization. -- Ma Huateng
I'm actually not a cannabis user frequently. -- Meghan McCain
To the user, the interface is the product. -- Aza Raskin
Sure, but competition is good for the user. -- Wietse Venema
This society is not 'user-friendly' for older people. -- Ram Dass
[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. -- Dylan Thomas
For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. -- Kevin Mitnick
The system should treat all user input as sacred. -- Jef Raskin
Think about what a user is going to type. -- Matt Cutts
Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user. -- Eric Schmidt
When advertising is involved, you, the user, are the product. -- Jan Koum
If a user is having a problem, it's our problem. -- Steve Jobs
The least flexible component of any system is the user. -- Lowell Jay Arthur
To initiate (user) action, doing must be easier than thinking. -- Nir Eyal
Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers. -- Jared Spool
I'm a big believer in online communities and in user-generated content. -- Michael Dell
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software. -- Bruce Tognazzini
The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time. -- Bruce Schneier
You don't have to please everyone-you have to please the user. -- Brenda Laurel
Didn't need the user icon to know you're white and male. -- Teresa Nielsen Hayden
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Power is neither good nor evil, but its user makes it so. -- Erin Hunter
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content. -- John Doerr
You know it wrong honey. I am friendly. I am not user-friendly. -- Arzum Uzun
The most common user action on a Web site is to flee. -- Edward Tufte
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. -- Nicholas Negroponte
Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base, -- Satoru Iwata
What is the user problem that once we solve users can't live without? -- Hosain Rahman
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs. -- Brian Kernighan
Every cannabis user is a medical patient whether they know it or not -- Dennis Peron
I am the unhappiest WordPress user in the world, I think it sucks. -- Matt Mullenweg
I could take on England, but I couldn't take on one heroin user. -- John Lydon
The IT model of the enterprise has become a lot more user lead. -- Aaron Levie
The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience. -- Marissa Mayer
That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user! -- Daniel Clowes
Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers. -- Bill Jensen
I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information, -- Arthur Frommer
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. -- Douglas Coupland
Good design successfully manages the tensions between user needs, technology feasibility, and business viability. -- Tim Brown
Products with higher user engagement have the potential to grow faster than their rivals. -- Nir Eyal
Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey. -- Bill Gates
My rule of thumb is build a site for a user, not a spider. -- David Naylor
All men start life as a road-user and only few continue it as a road-creator! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes. -- Arianna Huffington
The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot. -- Dave Barry
UNIX is a user-friendly operating system. It just picks its friends more carefully than others. -- David Wolfe
I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. -- Sara Sheridan
The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. -- John Tillotson
People in the computer industry use the term 'user,' which to them means 'idiot.' -- Dave Barry
As a big user of public libraries, I deplore the cutbacks they have had to sustain. -- Jill Abramson
I am extremely passionate about digital media and as a longtime user and fan of Yahoo! -- Ross Levinsohn
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. -- Joel Spolsky
I'm a full-time wheelchair user. And yet, given the right circumstances, I am able to work. -- Stella Young
The easiest programs to use are those which demand the least new learning from the user -- Eric S. Raymond
The missed call and call back drama between men and women deserves its own user mannual. -- Chetan Bhagat
A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly. -- Bobby Flay
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user. -- Dan Brown
Art made by the people for the people, as a joy to the maker and the user, -- William Morris
The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast. -- Daniel J. Bernstein
If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done. -- Scott Adams
If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used. -- Jaron Lanier
Cell phones have gotten so small, you can't tell who's a cell phone user and who's a schizophrenic. -- Bob Newhart
Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right? -- Marissa Mayer
The thinking needs to shift from being less about the actual things, to being about the individual user. -- Hosain Rahman
I want to make sure (a user) can't get through ... an online experience without hitting a Microsoft ad. -- Steve Ballmer
Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful. -- Homaro Cantu
When good ideas get put to bad use, it is the fault of the user, not the idea. -- Walter Darby Bannard
Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply. -- Don Chipp
Tools may limit the user, but the utility of tools is limited by the skill of the user. -- Leonard J. V. Compagno
We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. -- Mitchell Baker
As a designer, I love to explore user edge cases and figure out what appear to be rules. -- Eric Holmes
The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads. -- Fred Wilson
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user -- Pat Sajak
From a programmer's point of view, the user is a peripheral that types when you issue a read request. -- Pharrell Williams
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it. -- Jon Postel
A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. -- Ted Nelson
Anyone who has seen me spin that heavy, giant wheel on television knows that I'm not a steroid user. -- Pat Sajak
The choosing among words is made by every user of the language, and not exclusively by professional speakers and writers. -- Wilson Follett
The entire customer or user experience-from raising awareness, to buying a product / taking action, to getting customer support-is going digital. -- Colleen Jones

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