Julia Holter Quotes

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

People should mind their own business. This particularly applies to those who are inquisitive, and those who jump to conclusions.

Did you ever realize you have more opinions about my life than your own life?

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

I have come to learn that preliminary judgments are not judgments.

There are two kinds of economists in the world. Those who don't know the future and those who don't know that they don't know the future.

It's always dangerous to prescribe an idea on other people.

Everybody assumes I know everything, so they send me these notes sometimes, and I don't know what they're talking about.

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

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I will not discuss future hypothetical situations.

I definitely try to profile people at the grocery store based on what they're buying.

Sometimes you meet people that try to explain to you your work, and how to write a song and how to sing it, and they explain that you are doing it the wrong way. And yeah, it's always super frustrating.

Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

I've had so many people say stuff to me. I meet them, have a chat for five minutes and they think they can say what they like. I used to laugh it off, but now I think 'why do you think you can say that to me? You don't know me.'

It's horrible dating with Mama Mai! She is nosy. When I was a kid she would be the first one eavesdropping on my phone calls: 'Hello? Who you call for? Huh?'

I know how irritating it is when a producer puts his hand in everything.

It's always dangerous quoting numbers and expectations.

I don't think past experiences guarantee anything and I don't think you can rest on your morals.

Personally, I think that users should be able to use all the functions of a console video game machine as soon as they open the box.

The second you become an actress, people take the licence to make many assumptions about you. You're in trouble if you interact with a director/actor. You're in even more trouble if you don't. When I started out, a single YouTube comment would make me sad for days, and I'd wonder how people could say such nasty things about me.

My experience would say to me, never presume to have an answer to what the people are actually going to do.

Part of the responsibility of the technology industry is to anticipate the challenges of the vast majority of its future users and proactively start thinking about them now and proactively build products that address those challenges.

Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.

You are not designing for yourself, and shouldn't be. Most people using the Web don't understand (most of) what makes it work and don't want to. Design for those people. There are many more of them than you.