Design
If you can’t find the button
if you can’t find the button to use the camera on the phone, it doesn’t matter how many megapixels it is Adam Greenfield, a former head of design direction at Nokia, Interviewed by NYTimes.com
User experience
You train them not to pay attention
Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit. Seth Godin, in a instantly popular post The inevitable decline due to clutter
They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern
They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all. Khoi Vinh, on iPad Magazine Apps
Apple
It made technology go away
With the iPad, Apple has done the same for personal computing as it has done before with the iPod: it made technology go away. Jürgen from Cultured Code, An Empty Canvas
Apple
It’s not about killing off tinkerers
For Apple, it’s not about killing off tinkerers, but ensuring that not everybody who wants to use a computer has to be a tinkerer. Dan Moren, explaining why The iPad isn’t a third device, but a third revolution
User experience
I find it hard to believe
I find it hard to believe that the loss of background processing isn’t a price worth paying to have a computer that isn’t frightening anymore. Fraser Speirs, explaining why reactions to the iPad are Future Shock
When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates
When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates. Donald A. Norman, The Invisible Computer (1988)
Design
The instant, pre-conscious pleasure of seeing a well designed page
It’s the instant, pre-conscious pleasure of seeing a well designed page that makes you predisposed to find a beautiful design easy to use—an effect that lingers long after the slower, conscious behavioral and reflective levels of processing kick in and make you aware of how you feel about
Microsoft
The users simply couldn’t find them
Nine out of ten of the new possibilities people would like to have in the new edition of Office, were already part of the current one. The users simply couldn’t find them. Microsoft Office marketing manager Paul Coleman.
Technology
Some companies say
Some companies say, What product should we build with this technology?Some companies say, What technology do we need to build this product Some companies say, What product would this customer buy? Evan Williams, What companies say
Preferences are a way to avoid making tough decisions
Preferences are a way to avoid making tough decisions Getting Real