Elon Musk about products that need a manual to work

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk

A business magnate and investor. The founder, CEO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, Tesla and other companies.

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Design & Arts
UX Design

Clarity
Documentation
Good Design
Usability

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Usability’s strength is in identifying problems, while design’s strength is in identifying solutions.

Alan Cooper

An American software designer and programmer. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic".

Seeking Solutions
Usability

Good design is instinctive. People just know whether a design is good or bad from the way it feels to use.

Alan Moore

A British designer, artist, and entrepreneur. Advised companies such as Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, and Coca Cola.

Good Design

It doesn’t matter how many times I have to click, as long as each click is a mindless, unambiguous choice.

Steve Krug

A usability consultant (Apple, Netscape, AOL, Lexus) and a highly sought-after speaker on usability design.

Information Architecture
Usability
UX Design
Web Design

A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

Donald A. Norman

An American researcher, professor, and author (The Design of Everyday Things). As Apple’s User Experience Architect (90's), he became the first person to have UX in his job title.

Design Thinking
Problem Solving
Usability
UX Design

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