Bill Budge Quotes

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

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.

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.'

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.

As long as our user base continues to grow, at some point it will have critical mass, and at some point it will tip, and at some point, people will just have to use WhatsApp because their friends are using WhatsApp.

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.

As long as we continue to bring in more traffic, I'm much more concerned with building a good user experience and developing tools that will help grow the Imgur community of users.

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

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.

I'm more user-experience and technology-minded. James is good at knowing what the user is going to buy, and the creative world he's buying them into.

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

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

What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

I feel lucky because earlier in my career, I found what I liked to do; it's build software that you see your friends using on the street, and they like it.

Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Generally, our approach with products at Google is to first develop the right user base and then to figure out what's the right experience for the ads.

Hard numbers tell an important story; user stats and sales numbers will always be key metrics. But every day, your users are sharing a huge amount of qualitative data, too - and a lot of companies either don't know how or forget to act on it.

One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was like the very first time someone signs up. Every once in a while, I'll create a brand new account and give it a try and see how hard it is to find things that I really love, see if I'm using it or thinking about it differently.

Companies like Pinterest and Twitter did not become sensations because of Google search but because of the many ways users find out about great sites.

I love that our engineers are first and foremost 'Instagram' users.

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