World Usability Day Quotes on Twitter

We had some fun on World Usability Day by asking our twitter followers to tweet us their favorite usability quotes. @denise2424 deserves a special mention and a follow for sending us 9 quotes!

The tweets are below and don't forget to follow  @humanfactors and all the people below!

@EricSchaffer This year CEOs get that customer experience is the differentiator - Eric Schaffer, CEO and Founder, HFI

@humanfactors That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon - Tim Berners-Lee 

@heathersearl

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledgehammer on the construction site. (unattributed)

Usability testing is the killing field of cherished notions. David Orr

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

@vincesonson 

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple – awesomely simple – that’s creativity....Charles Mingus

....you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

@loretodefunes

Do not only listen to your users, it is also really important to OBSERVE them ..(unattributed)

@marshaknight

Understand what people are interested in and work back from there. Build a bridge" from-> @garethk (unattributed)

The right story turns skeptics into evangelist, are you a story teller?" from -> @userfirst (unattributed)

@UXventure

People ignore design that ignores people." -- Frank Chimero

@genericframe

Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing (unattributed)

Designing to requirements and walking on water are Easy if Both are Frozen (unattributed)

@denise2424 

If the user can't use it, it doesn't work - Susan Dray

Simplicity - the art of maximizing the amount of work not done - is essential." - from the Agile Manifesto

If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied - Alfred Nobel

If there's a 'trick' to it, the UI is broken - Douglas Anderson

Question about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable - Douglas Martin

It is far better to adapt the technology to the user than to force the user to adapt to the technology - Larry Marine

U know u have achieved perfection in design, not when u have nothing more to add....... but when u have nothing more to take away  - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works - Steve Jobs

Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple." -Albert Einstein

@sjglynn

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product." - Jef Raskin

Guy Harvey

Social Media Director

HFI