Beginners Quote by Ted Nelson

At the end of the day, you want a straightforward, simple system which everyone understands. If you can get clarity and simplicity in any…

— Steve Clarke

User interface is customer service for the computer.

— Julie Larson-Green

GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.

— Douglas Gwyn

Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions…

— Jordan Mechner

A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.

— Joel Spolsky

The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s…

— Sharon Lee

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the…

— Donald A. Norman

I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.

— Francois-Henri Pinault

I've spent my whole life worrying about the human-computer interface, so I don't want to suggest that what we have today is even close…

— Nicholas Negroponte

Simple make it easy if it's easy to understand

— Anonymous

The program should know if someone is at the keyboard or joystick or if it is just sitting there idle. It should know if…

— Bill Budge

I wrote a lot about the need for an information appliance. I think we've pretty much arrived at one: the iPad. A child could…

— Walt Mossberg