Usability Quotes

• Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

  Joel Spolsky

  Beer, Ugly, Coyotes

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• In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use.

  Donald A. Norman

  Home, Office, Marketing

  "The Design of Everyday Things". Book by Don Norman, ch. 7, p. 216, 1988.

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• The usability tests we have conducted during the last year have shown an increasing reluctance among users to accept innovations in Web design. The prevailing attitude is to request designs that are similar to everything else people see on the Web.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Actitud, Años, Gente

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• La belleza y la inteligencia, el placer y la facilidad de uso deberían ir de la mano.

  Donald A. Norman

  Hands, Design, Brain

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• Far too few designers put any thought into usability, ending up with a great product that's completely inaccessible.

  James Dyson

  Designer, Inaccessible, Products

  "Sir James Dyson: My 'Apple Moment'" by James Dyson, www.wired.com. October 6, 2011.

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• La capacidad de simplificar significa eliminar lo innecesario para que hable lo necesario.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspiración, Empresa, Significado

  1967 Búsqueda de lo real.

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• Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Clientes, productos, ifs

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• El diseño no es sólo lo que parece y lo que se siente. El diseño es cómo funciona.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiración, Empresa, Trabajo

  Steve Jobs (0101). "Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs", p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Principles, Elements

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• Puedes utilizar una goma de borrar en la mesa de dibujo o un mazo en la obra.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Diseño, Martillos, Uso

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• ...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Attention, Pay, User Experience

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• Una imagen vale más que mil palabras. Una interfaz vale más que mil imágenes.

  Ben Shneiderman

  Tecnología, Diseño, Una imagen vale más que mil palabras

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• Para el cliente, la interfaz es el producto.

  Jef Raskin

  Educación, Diseño, Experiencia

  Jef Raskin (2000). "La interfaz humana: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems", p.5, Addison-Wesley Professional.

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• You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Inspiring, Peace, Ubuntu

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• La forma sigue a la función: eso se ha malinterpretado. Forma y función deben ser una sola cosa, unidas en una unión espiritual.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood

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• Diseñar es comunicar con claridad por cualquier medio que puedas controlar o dominar.

  Milton Glaser

  Media, Diseño, Masters

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• The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go elsewhere; all the competitors in the world are but a mouseclick away.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Empowering, World, Environment

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Engineering, Years, Cost

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• The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

  Donald A. Norman

  Jobs, Real, Issues

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• Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Successful, Design, Computer

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• If you don't have people that care about usability on your project, your project is doomed.

  Jeff Atwood

  People, Care, Projects

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• Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.

  Peter Morville

  Use, Alphabet

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• Usability is like love. You have to care, you have to listen, and you have to be willing to change. You’ll make mistakes along the way, but that’s where growth and forgiveness come in.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Mistake, Love You, Like Love

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• El diseño conductual consiste en sentir que se tiene el control. Incluye: usabilidad, comprensión, pero también la sensación.

  Donald A. Norman

  Design, Understanding, Feelings

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• Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.

  Alan Cooper

  Tables, Chairs, Sandpaper

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