Natural environment Quote by Giles Colborne

“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

Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

— Bruce Tognazzini

“Experts want to control and customize the technology. You’ll need to take the mainstreamers’ view of “control:” to be in control of the outcomes.…

— Giles Colborne

If you love a medium made of software, there's a danger that you will become entrapped in someone else's recent careless thoughts. Struggle against…

— Jaron Lanier

“Software is eating the world”

— Marc Andreessen

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.

— Alan Cooper

“It seems to be common, judging from the number of incidents and accidents that have resulted, for software designers to forget that the world…

— Nancy G. Leveson

We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so…

— Mitchell Baker

“There are always ways to control your environment.”

— Steven Redhead

If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers…

— Jamie Zawinski

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

— John T. Chambers

“Software always remain softly for End users! But sometimes hardly to developers!”

— Bananeza Pacifique