Randall Munroe Quotes

I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

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.

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

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

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

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

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.

Accessibility is key. MMOs are great for traditional gamers who have a lot of time to become immersed in a world, but the mass market wants things bite-sized.

One of the problems with computers, particularly for the older people, is they were befuddled by them, and the computers have gotten better. They have gotten easier to use. They have gotten less expensive. The software interfaces have made things a lot more accessible.

Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page.

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

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

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

OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.

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

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

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.

Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'

We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.

A world-changing vision often necessitates a profound simplicity in the user experience.

A game's concept is one of its most important assets. I feel that we must aim to satisfy both beginners and experts, and that hasn't changed since I was making 'Kirby' games.

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.