Daniel J. Bernstein Quotes

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

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

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

The utmost thing is the user experience, to have the most useful experience.

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

You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.

Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

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.

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.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.

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.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable.

Taken as a whole, consumer technologies have made startling advances, but they still are not as easy to use as they should be.

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.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

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.

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

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

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

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Accessible design is good design.

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.