Miguel de Icaza Quotes

When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.

I had almost rewritten all of the display code for windows, and that was when I gave up.

I got tired of people complaining that it was too hard to use UNIX because the editor was too complicated.

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.

I'd like to be able to design as easily as if I was using Photoshop. I'd like to be able to create a multicolumn layout and control source order without having to do advanced mathematics or hire Eric Meyer or Dan Cederholm to figure out the CSS, because I can't.

I could open a thousand Excel documents and still never think to scroll past a wall of empty rows to see if, hidden beneath them, there is a tab I need to click. Just doesn't occur to me. Because, design.

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.

CSS is the design language of the web, and it is not as easy to use as it ought to be, and it can be confusing, especially if you are new to it.

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.

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

Whoever invented double clicking should be shot in the head! Twice!

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.

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

The only important thing about design is how it relates to people.

At the end of the day I'm pleased with the site I created.

I had a TV set and a typewriter and that made me think a computer should be laid out like a typewriter with a video screen.

There are changes in the works.

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.

I'm a Windows guy. I have been for many, many years. I play games, and it's where games run, baby.

Some things like the layout of the early VKontakte was very influenced by Facebook. Otherwise it could take ages for me to build, and I was not a professional designer.

The Internet didn't become usable until Netscape because that gave the average person a user interface that was intuitive, simple, friendly - this made it accessible.

I love the idea of web design that maximises expressiveness over functionality.

I've found that people who design computers don't know a lot about displays.

I feel like there are actually a lot of relationships between a website and a film in terms of designing an experience for a screen.