Interaction Design Quotes

Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.

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.

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

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

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

Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era.

Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl - it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.

You must have the ability to recognize good design and good user experience. These are core things at Airbnb. It doesn't matter which department you're in.

When you go to a site, you usually run into usability problems pretty quickly. They're not hidden. They're not complicated. They're not baffling. They were in the design or crept into the design.

In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical.

If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people.

That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface.

We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Design is people.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

Problems with visual design can turn users off so quickly that they never discover all the smart choices you made with navigation or interaction design.

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal.

I've just always been interested in moving past the keyboard and mouse.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

Design helps shape our everyday interactions through products, furniture, objects, or experiences.

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.

One problem we discovered, for example, was that our "create a new account" button was in the wrong place...By simply moving it to the left side, mirroring the way people read, we saw a huge improvement in the way people used the site.

Information design has been around since the 1970s. Pioneers like Yale University design guru Edward Tufte and design agency Pentagram have long known and used its power. But now with the rise of the Internet, it's having something of a second birth.