Homaro Cantu Quotes

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.

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

I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.

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

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

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.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

Computers are scary. They're nightmares to fix, lose our stuff, and, on occasion, they crash, producing the blue screen of death. Steve Jobs knew this. He knew that computers were bulky and hernia-inducing and Darth Vader black. He understood the value of declarative design.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

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.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done.

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.

Browseability is the key online.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

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

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.