Reggie Fils-Aime Quotes

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

You can't just watch people type all day, and you can't really show screenshots of code and make it interesting in any way.

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.

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

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

I'm interested in ways that digital interfaces can be utilized as powerful narrative devices, and to engage people in new and exciting ways.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design.

I feel like when the task is more difficult for me it's more exciting.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Reducing a product's definition to a list of features and functions ignores the real opportunity - orchestrating technological capability to serve human needs and goals.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

The point is that I don't design stuff for myself. I'm a toolmaker. I design things that other people want to use.

The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.

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.

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.

Although designers continue to dream of 'transparency' - technologies that just do their job without making their presence felt - both creators and audiences actually like technologies with 'personality.'

The stage for our whole show is actually really interesting and a lot of fun. There's always something going on so we figure even the people who come up and don't know Big Time Rush love the show because there's always something going on, so that's what we love about it.

What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.

For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos.

The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

Most photo apps before asked something of the users. They said, 'You produce, act, and perform.' 'Instagram' said, 'Let us take care of the secret sauce.'