User Perception Quotes

The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.

I don't think that there would be more users if drugs were legalized.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

There's only two types of people who are against drugs: the people who have never done drugs and the people who really sucked at doing drugs.

The users space is lived - not represented or conceived.

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. Bad websites have horrible personalities and instill horrid emotional states in their users, usually unwittingly. We need to design things-products, websites, services-to convey whatever personality and emotions are desired.

I really expected Twitter to be a scary place, for people to say horrible things, but I've had just the opposite experience.

If you think you can experience the power of the Internet on a 1-inch screen, you've got to be out of your mind.

When color TV arrived, it just sat there and you saw color. I've been to retail stores where there were no 3-D glasses at all and the 3-D images were all blurred. People were coming in and saying, 'I don't want to buy that.' There's a lot of marketing connected to introducing technologies and especially introducing new experiences.

The No. 1 challenge is getting people to understand that Pinterest isn't a social network.

Design is how you make your first impression with your consumers. Make sure it is a lasting one.

We use blue on the handle of the Alessi kettle. Blue is cool, so you're supposed to think that it's not hot. And the bird is red: you're supposed to think to be careful to remove the bird.

People wouldn't go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people's information where it's visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff.