Mike Krieger Quotes

I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us.

It's very difficult to design something for someone if you have no empathy.

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

Also note that invariably when we design something that can be used by those with disabilities, we often make it better for everyone.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

Accessible design is good design.

Design should not dominate things, should not dominate people. It should help people. That's its role.

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

Design is people.

Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies and sociologies.

I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.

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.

Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.

The main tenet of design thinking is empathy for the people you're trying to design for. Leadership is exactly the same thing - building empathy for the people that you're entrusted to help.

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.