Behave Quote by Joel Spolsky Download Open image “A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.” — Joel Spolsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Behave Interfaces Program Programming User interface Users Wells
The truth of Moore's law has made remarkable things possible. On the software side, I think natural user interfaces in all their forms are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
When developers of digital technologies design a program that requires you to interact with a computer as if it were a person, they ask… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software. — Bruce Tognazzini Copy Share Image
Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
In many cases, the user interface to a program is the most important part for a commercial company: whether the programs works correctly or… — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Even for the very best programmers ah, sometimes you'll see someone else's program or somebody will come along and they'll show you what can… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
I have discovered that there are two types of command interfaces in the world of computing: good interfaces and user interfaces. — Daniel J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
One of the great enemies of design is when systems or objects become more complex than a person - or even a team of… — Bran Ferren Copy Share Image
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… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
If your goals is to produce something of permanent value, you start to think differently about you want on the site. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Remember, just because Microsoft can do something, doesn't mean you can. Microsoft makes their own gravity. Normal rules don't apply to them. — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“If you can’t understand the spec for a new technology, don’t worry: nobody else will understand it either, and the technology won’t be that… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
So if you want to get things done, you positively have to understand at any given point in time what is the most important… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Not having a schedule is OK if it's your PhD and you plan to spend 14 years on the thing, or if you're a… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
If you are a programmer working in 2006 and you don’t know the basics of characters, character sets, encodings, and Unicode, and I catch… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“In any case, even if a usability test resolves a dispute, it doesn't do it in any kind of a statistically valid way. Unless… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“The confidence you get from knowing about every crash, anywhere in the world, is crucial to delivering a high-quality product that needs to be… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
“Many rookie software managers think that they can "motivate" their programmers to work faster by giving them nice, "tight" (unrealistically short) schedules. I think… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same… — Joel Spolsky Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To behave creatively in art means behavior with skill; and skill comes from discipline, not derangement. The artist who knows the rules -and proportion… — Burne Hogarth Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing… — Frank Knight Copy Share Image
Why does man behave like perfect idiot? This is the problem I wish to deal with. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
This is a time in my life where I'm gonna behave like an elegant human being. Or not. — Elaine Stritch Copy Share Image
Most people, even in simple risky situations, don't behave the way the theory of utility would have them behave. — Howard Raiffa Copy Share Image
As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from… — Arsene Wenger Copy Share Image
What astonishes many of us is not so much that human nature is fundamentally corrupt; we are astonished rather that it does not behave… — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Do we behave out of fear of punishment, or out of the demands of our heart? For me, it is the latter, as I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence… — Michel Odent Copy Share Image