Usability

Usability

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Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

Elon Musk
Elon Musk

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

  • Design & Arts
  • UX Design
  • Clarity
  • Documentation
  • Good Design
  • Usability
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A brilliant solution to the wrong problem can be worse than no solution at all: solve the correct problem.

Donald A. Norman
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.

  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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What users say they want is rarely the solution that would best solve their problems. User requests are symptoms of unmet goals and needs, not the solutions.

Doug Collins
Doug Collins

UX designer, writer speaker, mentor within the UX community and the founder and leader of The NUXers, a Denver-based group aimed at giving new UX professionals the skills they need to be successful in the business world. 

  • UX Design
  • Design Thinking
  • Problem Solving
  • Product Design
  • Usability
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The push for simplicity has a purpose. Stripping away non-essential features makes products easier for people to learn from the start and easier to use over time.

Ken Kocienda
Ken Kocienda

Software engineer and designer who worked for Apple for over fifteen years. Ken worked on the software teams that created the Safari web browser, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch.

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  • Simplicity
  • Usability
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Philippe Starck - Juicer
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My juicer is not meant to squeeze lemons; it is meant to start conversations.

Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck

French industrial architect and designer known for his wide range of designs, including interior design, architecture, household objects, furniture, boats and other vehicles.

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Your objective should always be to eliminate instructions entirely by making everything self-explanatory, or as close to it as possible. When instructions are absolutely necessary, cut them back to the bare minimum.

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

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

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

Steve Krug
Steve Krug

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

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  • Website Development
  • Information Architecture
  • Usability
  • UX Design
  • Web Design
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Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself.

Donald A. Norman
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 & Arts
  • Testing
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the designer has failed. On the other hand, if people are made safer, more comfortable, more eager to purchase, more efficient — or just happier — by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.

Henry Dreyfuss
Henry Dreyfuss

An American industrial engineer, renowned for designing and improving the usability of consumer products such as Hoover vacuum cleaner or the tabletop telephone.

  • Design & Arts
  • Design Thinking
  • Industrial Design
  • Usability
  • UX Design
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Learn more Public kiosks run an unfortunate risk of being a disease vector, so your first pass should try for noncontact inputs like voice, proximity switches, or non-contact gestural inputs.

Alan Cooper
Alan Cooper

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

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  • Tips & Advice
  • Usability
  • UX Design
  • UX Elements
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