Alexa Hirschfeld Quotes

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.

Things that we need to learn are the importance of establishing brand, establishing market presence. Technology-wise, it's things like ease of use, user interfaces; all of these things that tend to be less important in our other business segments are important things for us in the consumer market.

It's not enough to have a hacker culture anymore. You have to have a design culture, too.

I did an early version of my site where it was virtually impossible to get through it, just as a statement about the web. But after a few laughs and some angry e-mails, I realized it wasn't doing me much good. I think the web has become more about the final product, not what it takes to get to it.

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

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

You have to know what your users are experiencing.

Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

It's the scale that Yahoo brings - and that user base - that I really want to build products for.

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.'

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

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

You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

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.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

Search occupies this wonderful moment in a user's day where it doesn't even really break along demographics, right?

You don't have to know how to build an automobile or a television set or a laptop to know how to use it.

Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

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.

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

Design is people.