Quote by Giles Colborne Download Open image ““Simple user experiences need to work for a novice, or a mainstreamer who’s under pressure.”” — Giles Colborne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“SImplicity is focusing my attention on what I want to create and experience.” — Candy Paull Copy Share Image
“Personally, I believe in tools that close the gap between professionals and beginners, understanding that — push comes to shove — this is a… — Laura Busche Copy Share Image
“Being a "promising beginner" is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.” — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“For now, what I hope to convey is that experts and beginners have different motivational needs. At the start of an endeavor, we need… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
“To be simple, you have to aim for something tougher than the regular goals for usability.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Moreover, individual users do not have to develop everything they need on their own:” — Eric von Hippel Copy Share Image
“When opposed to the weight of accomplishment, the lightness of being a novice is invaluable.” — Emmanuel Apetsi Copy Share Image
“Simplicity is achieved when everyone can easily understand and use the design, regardless of experience, literacy, or concentration level.” — William Lidwell Copy Share Image
“Simplicity isn’t something you can stick on top of a user interface.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Challenging myself and pushing against my fears are two of my core values, and that won’t happen if I’m endlessly building client websites. If… — Paul Jarvis Copy Share Image
“Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“It’s been pointed out that products that start out simple often end up getting so complex they cease to be useful. But if you… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“At home, at work, and outdoors, you must design for constant interruptions.” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Begin with that need—the user’s need to feel in control of some part of his life—then try to dig deeper by asking, “So what?” — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Mainstreamers are interested in getting the job done now; experts are interested in customizing their settings first. • Mainstreamers value ease of control; experts… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Visiting users in their workplaces was vital—if we’d simply imagined the manager at his desk we would have missed the crucial aspects. Watching people… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Wizards promise to make things simple by breaking them down into steps. The problem is they take control away from the user. Because of… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“The quick and dirty way is to write down a one-line description, in the simplest terms possible, of what I’m creating, along with a… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“The thing to do, then, is to describe what the user does from the beginning to the end of their experience, remembering that it’s… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image
“Your design shouldn’t interfere with this sense of control. It should extend it. Simple experiences make users confident that they’re making good choices. Simple… — Giles Colborne Copy Share Image