Linus Torvalds Quotes

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

WhatsApp only wanted to focus on how current users were engaging with the product. Like how they did not use advertising and kept the experience uncluttered.

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

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

With 100 million people, somebody is using your product in some interesting way. If you change it... you're going to break some use cases.

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

One thing matters more than anything else for a dating product, and that is the quantity and quality of the people who use the product. It's really freaking hard to get critical mass.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

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

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too - and a lot of companies either don't know how or forget to act on it.

For most companies, the hard thing is making the product work well enough to convince a single person at a time to switch to it.

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.

We obviously try to be in tune with what our users want.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

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.

If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Ultimately progress is measured sort of through the eyes of users.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

Bebo has an opportunity to prove its products and services. Bebo plays in a very competitive space; it has big market share in specific countries. An AIM profile vs. a Bebo profile are very different experiences.

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.

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.'

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.

OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.