Jeffrey Zeldman Quotes

People do not choose Dropbox because it has this much space or gigabytes. They choose it for the experience.

As much as we can, we want to prevent people from having to think about how to keep and share their stuff.

A lot of times you can lose the MP3s - it's a lot of labor to be finding it again, putting things back up. You gotta back up, back up, back up.

Most computers today have built in backup software.

Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.

All of my memories are now on hard drives. I'll change phones or I'll change my laptop, and all my photos stay.

The belief is more and more as we use iCloud services for documents and our photos and videos and music that perhaps the most price-conscious customers are able to live in an environment where they don't need gobs of local storage because these services are lightening the load.

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

What we're trying to do at Yahoo is build our products so they're safe and trustworthy, not just secure.

Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it.

My iCloud keeps telling me to back it up, and I'm like, 'I don't know how to back you up. Do it yourself!'

Only wimps use tape backup. Real men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.

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.

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

Design is people.

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

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.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

No one really knows how many [SBU] records are covered or for how long, and there are practically none of the limits that we do have in the security classification world.

The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.