Billions Quote by Jakob Nielsen

“Inadequate use of usability engineering methods in software development projects have been estimated to cost the US economy about $30 billion per year in lost productivity.”

Jakob Nielsen

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings)

Billions Cost Development Economy Engineering Has beens Inadequate Lost Method Productivity Programming Projects Software Software development Usability Use Years

More by Jakob Nielsen

Users are not designers.

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer…

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Even the best designers produce successful products only if their designs solve the right problems. A wonderful interface to the wrong features will fail.

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

Jakob Nielsen

Image

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

Jakob Nielsen

Image

The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making…

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Consistency is one of the most powerful usability principles: when things always behave the same, users don't have to worry about what will happen.…

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

Jakob Nielsen

Image

People have to want to change before there's any chance of helping them do so.

Jakob Nielsen

Image

The web is the ultimate customer-empowering environment. He or she who clicks the mouse gets to decide everything. It is so easy to go…

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Minimize the user's memory load by making objects, actions, and options visible. The user should not have to remember information from one part of…

Jakob Nielsen

Image

Explore all 42 Jakob Nielsen quotes

More Billions quotes

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Aesop Rock

Image

As far as Japan is concerned, I want to help all of our allies, but we are losing billions and billions of dollars. We…

Donald Trump

Image

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to…

Arthur Bloch

Image

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.

Van Jones

Image

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

Tim LaHaye

Image

Here we were talking about economic development, about investing billions of dollars in various programs, and I could see it wasn't billions of dollars…

Muhammad Yunus

Image

Everyone thinks they've won the Magical Belief Lottery. Everyone thinks they more or less have a handle on things, that they, as opposed to…

R. Scott Bakker

Image

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins of five…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred…

Douglas Adams