UX Quotes http://www.uxquotes.com Useful quotes on User Experience Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:12:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The importance of insight http://www.uxquotes.com/subject/ucd/the-importance-of-insight/ http://www.uxquotes.com/subject/ucd/the-importance-of-insight/#comments Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:12:54 +0000 admin http://www.uxquotes.com/?p=1031

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

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Typography exists to honor content.

Robert Bringhurst

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Do not go to non-buyers for advice. Ask your buyers why they bought your product. This is how we launched Macintosh.

Guy Kawasaki

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One accurate measurement is worth more than a thousand expert opinions.

Grace Hopper

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Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.

Tim Berners-Lee

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“There will never be a mouse at the Ford Motor Company.”

High-level acquisition manager, 1985

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The information is in the people, not in your head.

Edward T. Hall

]]> http://www.uxquotes.com/subject/user-research/know-the-user/feed/ 0 To design is to order http://www.uxquotes.com/author/emil-ruder/to-design-is-to-order/ http://www.uxquotes.com/author/emil-ruder/to-design-is-to-order/#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:29:56 +0000 admin http://www.uxquotes.com/?p=933

To design is to plan, to order, to relate, and to control. In short, it opposes all means of disorder and accident.

Emil Ruder

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Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload

Richard Saul Wurman

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Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success—if not this time, next time.

Alan Lewis

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