Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good.

When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

You can't just watch people type all day, and you can't really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.

You have a new audience for every show. Even though you do the same thing all the time, you gotta keep it fresh for yourself, and you gotta keep it good and interesting and something you want to do. I'm anxious to have a really terrific act. Whatever it takes it takes.

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

We constantly push the edge on technology. But for us, technology needs to be fun.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.

We never want the audience to get bored.

Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.