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Quotes about Interface

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface
is the product.
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POOR USER EXPERIENCE TENDS
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recognize that in network
and interface research
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profound (and potential
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People who work on the
user interface side need
to have empathy as a key
characteristic. But if you
are writing device drivers
you don't really need to
understand humans so
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To the user,
the interface is the
product.
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co-FOUNDER, MASSIVE HEALTH
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Interface, of the resonant interval as 'where the action is', whether chemical, psychic or social, involves touch. Votes: 3

Marshall McLuhan
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The new course we're on at Interface ... is to pioneer the next Industrial Revolution: one that is kinder and gentler to the earth. Votes: 3

Ray Anderson
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As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product. Votes: 2

Jef Raskin
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I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface. Votes: 2

Jeff Bezos
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A picture is worth a thousand words. An interface is worth a thousand pictures. Votes: 2

Ben Shneiderman
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An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties. Votes: 2

Jef Raskin
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Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design. Votes: 2

Jef Raskin
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I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. Votes: 2

Ken Thompson
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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface. Votes: 2

Jaron Lanier
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Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems. Votes: 2

Judith Faulkner
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I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence. Votes: 2

Vernor Vinge
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When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology. Votes: 2

Howard Rheingold
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Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things. Votes: 2

Bill Gates
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In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or not seems to be secondary. Votes: 2

Linus Torvalds
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For me, the most fascinating interface is Twitter. I have odd cosmic thoughts every day and I realized I could hold them to myself or share them with people who might be interested. Votes: 2

Neil deGrasse Tyson
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You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens. Votes: 2

Jennifer Pahlka
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A National Database on Autism Research is fostering sharing of data and collaborations. Scientists are also making great strides at the interface of biology and engineering with new technologies that are laying the groundwork for future advances. Votes: 2

Thomas R. Insel
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My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. Votes: 2

Bjarne Stroustrup
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I find web browsing, checking multiple email accounts, and Google mapping rather tiresome on an iPhone - the iPhone's native interface, for all its supposed perfection, has all kinds of wrong baked in - and the screen is just far too small. Votes: 2

John Battelle
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Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap. Votes: 2

Steve Jobs
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You need to look no further than Apple's iPhone to see how fast brilliantly written software presented on a beautifully designed device with a spectacular user interface will throw all the accepted notions about pricing, billing platforms and brand loyalty right out the window. Votes: 2

Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized. Votes: 2

Ken Salazar
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There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep. Votes: 2

Jon Kabat-Zinn
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I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure. Votes: 2

Bono
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We'll continue to expand our footprint... Oracle's Fusion cloud applications for HCM, CRM and ERP all have a new simplified user interface and an integrated social network that makes our enterprise applications as easy-to-use and familiar as Facebook, while enabling better collaboration and teamwork among your employees and your customers. Votes: 2

Larry Ellison
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If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive. Votes: 2

Jaron Lanier
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Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world. Votes: 2

Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
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The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms. Votes: 2

Mindy Grossman
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To the user, the interface is the product. Votes: 0

Aza Raskin
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User interface is customer service for the computer. Votes: 0

Julie Larson-Green
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Complexity assertions have to be part of the interface Votes: 0

Alexander Stepanov
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Fungi are the interface organisms between life and death. Votes: 0

Paul Stamets
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The fusion of art and technology that we call interface design. Votes: 0

Steven Johnson
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The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned. Votes: 0

Bruce Tognazzini
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There are gentler and more graceful ways to interface with natural conflict. Votes: 0

Bryant McGill
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Ethics: The indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama
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Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. Votes: 0

Douglas McIlroy
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Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work. Votes: 0

Nicholas Negroponte
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That strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface. Votes: 0

Steven Johnson
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I dream of a Digital India where technology ensures the Citizen-Government interface is incorruptible. Votes: 0

Narendra Modi
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IBM was the original contractor for much of the computer interface design on the film. Votes: 0

Douglas Trumbull
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What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface. Votes: 0

Megan Smith
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A well-designed and humane interface does not need to be split into beginner and expert subsystems. Votes: 0

Jef Raskin
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A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would. Votes: 0

Joel Spolsky
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris. Votes: 0

Edward Tufte
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface. Votes: 0

Salman Khurshid
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Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. Votes: 0

Sigmund Freud
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All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it. Votes: 0

Jon Postel
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A user interface should be so simple that a beginner in an emergency can understand it within ten seconds. Votes: 0

Ted Nelson
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One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface, Votes: 0

Matt Mullenweg
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Individualism is bad for business - though absolutely necessary for freedom, progressive knowledge, and any possible interface with the transcendent. Votes: 0

Tom Robbins
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it. Votes: 0

Alan Cooper
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Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing. Votes: 0

Ry Cooder
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I'm just really interested in the interface of the individual with the collective. I think that's where the arts live. Votes: 0

Alison Hawthorne Deming
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When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex. Votes: 0

Randall Munroe
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We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface Votes: 0

K. K. Barrett
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The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old. Votes: 0

Thorsten Heins
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I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions. Votes: 0

Francois-Henri Pinault
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I believe that any sort of changes to interface that allows people to get into games and enjoy games is a great trend. Votes: 0

Shigeru Miyamoto
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Your journey is to see how deeply you can interface your mind with infinity. That's the journey of a monk - to see. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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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. Votes: 0

Jakob Nielsen
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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. Votes: 0

Jakob Nielsen
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Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface. Votes: 0

Weili Dai
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When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology, Votes: 0

Howard Rheingold
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To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. Votes: 0

Jakob Nielsen
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Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival. Votes: 0

Alan Cooper
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I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close to acceptable. Votes: 0

Nicholas Negroponte
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But biology and computer science - life and computation - are related. I am confident that at their interface great discoveries await those who seek them. Votes: 0

Leonard Adleman
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Put simply, if an interface is poorly designed, I will not see the data I looked for, even if it is right there on the page. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Zeldman
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The real tight interface is between the book and the reader-the world of the book is plugged right into your brain, never mind the [virtual reality] bodysuit. Votes: 0

Bill McKibben
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Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good! Votes: 0

Philippe Kahn
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You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett
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Regulatory fiat cannot create a market at a technologically interdependent interface. And by the same token, regulation and so-called monopoly power rarely prevail at modular interfaces between stages of value-added technology. Votes: 0

Clayton Christensen
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People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. Votes: 0

Andy Hertzfeld
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This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. Votes: 0

Douglas McIlroy
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The experiences that technology provides is very, very important, rather than just the backroom aspects of running things. It's just as important to focus on the consumer interface and how we're experiencing things. Votes: 0

Gary Shapiro
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I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that. Votes: 0

Harriet Walter
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You can communicate to a new cybercity... This will be the ideal home server. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix! Votes: 0

Ken Kutaragi
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The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users. Votes: 0

Douglas Rushkoff
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Always think about how a piece of code should be used: good interfaces are the essence of good code. You can hide all kinds of clever and dirty code behind a good interface if you really need such code.

Bjarne Stroustrup
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Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.

Jordan Mechner
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The user of the electric light -- or a hammer, or a language, or a book -- is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.

Marshall McLuhan
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Our lives look a lot more interesting when they're filtered through the sexy Facebook interface. We star in our own movies, we photograph ourselves incessantly, we click the mouse and a machine confirms our sense of mastery.

Jonathan Franzen
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An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.

Aaron Koblin
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I'd like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.

Steve Jobs
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As designers, we are the interface. Trying to make things understandable. That requires involving oneself with what's going on in the world. One must understand what people are, what they're up to, what they care about, how they feel.

Ivan Chermayeff
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At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

Terence McKenna
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I have a senior staff meeting every day, with key personnel who interface with the players - coaches, the medical staff, our analyst department. This is a useful exercise as it means we are all across what is happening and they are aware of my expectations.

Brendan Rodgers
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Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.

Shigeru Miyamoto
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Once you've started a film you don't become a wet noodle. You must have that conflictual interface because you don't know, and they don't know. It's through conflict that you come out with something that might be different, better than either of you thought to begin with.

Jack Nicholson
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It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours.

Dalai Lama
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Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.

Ellen Lupton
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User interface (78 quotes)

I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. Votes: 7 Daniel J. Bernstein

User interface design (32 quotes)

A general principle for all user interface design is to go through all of your design elements and remove them one at a time. Votes: 3 Jakob Nielsen


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