Steve Ballmer Quotes

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

If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

User-centered design means working with your users all throughout the project.

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.

Well, user feedback was excellent. Even when the software didn't work at all, there were few people who were avid users, and there were people who were just sending excellent feedback and excellent ideas.

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

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

If a whole bunch of users want a specific feature, and we think that feature is pretty cool, too, that that's just what we'll do.

A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

When we show you all these various pieces of content on the site, how frequently do you take the one that we present? And of the one you took, how frequently do you completely watch the whole series? And do you rate it, one to five stars? So if we presented it to you, and you watched it, and you rated it, that's a big win.

What I tell founders is not to sweat the business model too much at first. The most important task at first is to build something people want. If you don't do that, it won't matter how clever your business model is.

When I meet with most entrepreneurial teams, I ask them a simple question: How do you know that you're making progress? Most of them really can't answer that question.

I think if the average person that uses AOL can't physically see the changes in the company, we've failed.

We are a consumer company and our success is directly linked to our users trusting us. Therefore we have the same incentive as the user: they want to see relevant advertising so their experience of Google is positive and we want to deliver it.

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.

We want people to stay on MySpace. We'll give them whatever they might want to do.

Our principal role as designers is to accelerate new ideas and the adoption of new ideas.

We don't really talk about our future plans. But we, at the same time, try to build things that our users ask us for.

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

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.

When you let travelers vote with their clicks, and you put that at the center of your decision-making, you build the product they want, and ultimately, their business will follow.

Writing works when publications are writing and serving the best interest of their users; numbers are good yardstick but not a way to compensate a person.

We try hard to provide the best user experience possible, and that means the best ads possible, so we work with the brands to come up with the best images.

In the early days, it was enough for Imgur to have a team that was focused on building product and engineering. But I realized early on if we were going to be successful, we needed someone who would be a bridge between the company and community.