Alan Schaaf Quotes

I think there are a lot more people that don't use Pinterest in the world than do use it, so for most people, that first experience is really, really important. I think feeling really close and in touch with that first user experience is pretty basic to making it better every day.

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

Companies in Silicon Valley invest a lot in understanding their users and what drives user engagement.

We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

It's not 100 per cent clear to me what's working about Snapchat.

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.

The fundamental truth for developers is they will build if there are users.

If you look at all the companies I've been involved with - Flickr, Etsy, Findery - communities are a significant part of them. Connecting people to each other, user-generated content, building interactions. That's what I've cared about most.

It doesn't matter how good your product solution is if users don't enjoy or understand how to use it.

Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

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

I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.

It's definitely going to be harder than it sounds to acquire millions of users in the U.S. It's going to be a lot of work, and you can't make light of that.

If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person.

In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary.

At any time of day, hundreds of different versions of Facebook are running on the Internet - with a changed color here, a moved button there - and the user response to each variation is measured. And the same is done with advertising.

Twitter didn't make up the hashtag. Twitter didn't make up the retweet. It's our users. And people started using them so much that we decided to weave them into the product. I can't think of another company that has taken its users' actions and said, 'We're going to make them useful to everybody.'

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

There was a lot of dialogue between the people who were developing Flickr and their users to get feedback on how they wanted Flickr to develop. That interaction made the initial community very strong, and then that seed was there for new people who joined to make the community experience strong for them, too.

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.

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if someone is proficient in its use or a novice.

When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

If we are building something that users need, and there is a lot of value we are driving, I think how search manifests in iOS will work out just fine.