Aneel Bhusri Quotes

The best version of Foursquare is the one you don't think about using.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.

Consumers have zero time for products that are not simple, intuitive, and attractive to use. This is especially true with Internet products, where clean and useful design is a prerequisite to keeping anyone on your site for more than 30 seconds.

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

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

Keeping it simple for the consumer is incredibly dire.

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

We try to develop products that seem somehow inevitable, that leave you with the sense that that's the only possible solution that makes sense.

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

When a device as simple as a door has to come with an instruction manual—even a one-word manual—then it is a failure, poorly designed.

What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

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

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

Software options proliferate extremely easily - too easily, in fact - because too many options create tools that can't ever be used intuitively. Intuitive actions confine the detail work to a dedicated part of the brain, leaving the rest of one's mind free to respond with attention and sensitivity to the changing texture of the moment.

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

In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.

Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.

We want to let you use a Mac, or Windows PC, or iPad, or Android, without having to think about any of the technical details.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

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

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

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