Jack Dorsey Quotes

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.

Macs are not intuitive. It's intuitive to the person who created it. It's not intuitive to me.

My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

There's a fundamental problem with how the software business does things. We're asking people who are masters of hard-edged technology to design the soft, human side of software as well. As a result, they make products that are really cool - if you happen to be a software engineer.

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process.

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web browser without worrying about what everything looked like under the hood.

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.

Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution.

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well.

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

For Google, the problem with being a free, abundant, and rather infinite set of services is that it's hard to create much of a stir about anything. There are so many major software service options under the 'more' menu on the Gmail page that they've had to go and add a final item called 'even more.'

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

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.

I have problems with machines which aren't gestural.

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.

I was using Twitter a lot on my phone, and was realising there was a massive gap between the link on the tweet and the full story. If you could come up with a summary layer to show in Twitter, that would be awesome.

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

A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures.

Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.

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