Larry Page Quotes

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.

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

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

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

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.

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

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.

The Internet is full of choices, and nobody is going to make the choice to use a product that is hard to use or unattractive.

Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology. There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.

Products have to be designed in a way that they are comprehensible.

As I have said many times - I like Facebook. I think it is well built and run. It's cool. I think it is, in its next-step way, even visionary.

Good design to me is both appearance and functionality together. It's the experience that makes it good design.

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

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity.

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.

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.

Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

Browseability is the key online.

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.

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

The wonderful thing about Apple technology is just how intuitive it is.

An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.