Jefferson Han Quotes

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

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.'

Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.

Sometimes a movie knows you're watching it. It knows how to hold and keep you, how, when it's over, to make you want it all over again.

I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact.

I just feel like content is content; people want to see it resonate.

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

When you make a TV show, they always say you're a guest in someone's home. Online, you're a guest in someone's face. So that's why I try to make it sound and look and feel very inviting and attractive, because I know that I'm in your face.

I never heard one word in Pixar about, 'Will kids get this?' I don't think it's important that they get everything. I think that it's important that they get engaged, interested.

When you are seen as someone who actively communicates with new connections, it can make other online users want to connect with you.

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.

A huge potential audience, great interaction with your readers, the ability to see what people like and what they don't, the ability to see how people respond to what you're doing in real-time - there's just tons of great stuff that you get by being online.

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.

I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there's very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.

Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

When you're onstage you have a certain faith that somebody's gonna yell somethin' back. Some nights it's louder than other nights and some nights they do, and on some songs they don't. But that's the idea. I think when you begin to expect a reaction from an audience, it's a mistake.

The more you put into it, the more you and the audience will get out of it.

I just want to create situations where people forget time.

I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about the creation of a tune etc. and it gives the listener a glimpse inside my songs and then as you get to the last half hour you pick up the pace and work harder and get more into the show. It's all about stagecraft.

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.

I think people get too comfortable, in just doing what they do every week. And I'm all about challenge and change, and I like to read the audience.