A Quote by Aza Raskin

To the user, the interface is the product. — © Aza Raskin
To the user, the interface is the product.

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Aza Raskin
Born: February 1, 1984
Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product, an app, or a user interface.
Every day, hundreds of millions of people stab themselves, bleed, and then offer, like a sacrifice, to the glucose monitor they're carrying with them. It's such a bad user interface that even though in the medium-term it's life or death for these people, hundreds of millions of people don't engage in this user interface.
When designers replaced the command line interface with the graphical user interface, billions of people who are not programmers could make use of computer technology.
A user interface is well-designed when the program behaves exactly how the user thought it would.
The ultimate goal of a habit-forming product is to solve the user's pain by creating an association so that the user identifies the company's product or service as the source of relief.
I closely follow everything about user interface or human-computer interface: technology that makes computers closer to the way the human being actually functions.
The user of the electric light - or a hammer, or a language, or a book - is the content. As such, there is a total metamorphosis of the user by the interface. It is the metamorphosis that I consider the message.
It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.
Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.
User interface is customer service for the computer.
Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.
I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
The act of voting, to put it in computing terms, is a question of user interface.
The very ability to empathize with a user requires that I have an understanding of that user's value and needs. This is what leads to many product fails. The individuals developing the innovation don't actually use it.
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
All this stuff was done via FTP but the web has put a really nice user interface on it.
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