Linus Torvalds Quotes

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

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

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

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

I have my team focused on the front end, working on the user experience, and making sure we have all the wiki-like tools people need to work on the site. We're just cranking away.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

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

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

The average user doesn't give a damn what happens, as long as (1) it works and (2) it's fast.

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

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

We want the average person to use it and think that it makes the experience of using Pinterest better.

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.

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.

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 that... I've seen Nintendo do so well is provide a user interface that is intuitive, easy to navigate, easy to execute against - and in our view, that's exactly what we've done on DSi.

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.

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.

Interactivity and a better experience aren't always the same thing.

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.

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

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

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.