Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

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

What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.'

Technology has to be invisible. Transparent. Just simple.

I think what is going to happen in the future is more customization, more personalization. We all are different and we ought to be able to customize and have a phone that does exactly what we want it to do - that is so easy to use that we don't even have to think about it. That's what the dream is.

...I know good design when I fail to trip over it.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Historically, software for business was seen as unsexy because the products were seen as so poor - they provided such a poor user experience.

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.

When technology reaches that level of invisibility in our lives, that's our ultimate goal. It vanishes into our lives. It says, 'You don't have to do the work; I'll do the work.'

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.

If you don't have an emotionally engaging design for a device, no one will care about it.

Browseability is the key online.

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.

Multi-touch sensing was designed to allow nontechies to do masterful things while allowing power users to be even more virtuosic.

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

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.

Our goal is simple objects, objects that you can't imagine any other way.

We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.

Windows is the best place; it's the home for the very best Microsoft experiences.

What matters is 'Have you done a better job of making our experiences feel like home on Windows?' That's our real goal, and that's what we're going to stay focused on.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.