Bill Gates

One thing I've always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they'll tell you, 'We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.

American Businessman

Jan Chipchase

I specialise in taking teams of designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists and ethnographers into the field. It's called 'corporate anthropology,' but personally I'm more comfortable with 'design research,' because I'm not an anthropologist by training.

Businessman

Jeffrey Zeldman

The less concerned with aesthetics and usability these friends and family members are, the more easily they navigate sites and applications I can't make head nor hair of. Like the ex-girlfriend who mastered Ebay.

Steve Krug

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.

I don't think there are as many usability issues as there are tactical or strategic decisions related to whether incorporating social networking into your site is going to help or hurt.

Henrik Fisker

A painting doesn't have to have a real usability other than you looking at it. Obviously, a car, an engine, or battery has to fit people's needs.

Danish Designer

Brian Kernighan

It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.

Canadian Scientist

Ryan Holmes

Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.

Canadian Businessman

James Dyson

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

British Designer

Donald Norman

Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.

American Scientist

Focuses on how a user interacts with something, like software or a website, emphasizing simplicity and satisfaction.

User Experience

Related to function not looks. A tool can be ugly but have high usability if it's easy to use.

Not Aesthetic

Before launch, products undergo usability testing to ensure people can use them without problems.

Testing Importance

Refers to how many different situations or problems something can be applied to effectively.

Scope of Use

Emphasizes the practical benefits and functionality, rather than purely theoretical aspects.

Practical Value

Implies the concept or tool can be used in various contexts, enhancing its significance.

Wide Applications

 about winning gopros about heroism apple is about simplicity and usability and google comes from the math term that's a one with a hundred zeros after it so that really big number helps support the company's really big original vision to organize the world's information so as you think about your new brand

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 it has been rehearsed and thought about a lot. Most of what we do is subconscious. Automatic behavior -- skilled behavior -- is subconscious, controlled by the behavioral side. And behavioral design is all about feeling in control, which includes usability, understanding -- but also the feel and heft.

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