A Quote by Howard Rheingold
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.
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What was so special about the Mac, we all know, was the graphical computer interface.
It was one of those sort of apocalyptic moments. I remember within ten minutes of seeing the graphical user interface stuff, just knowing that every computer would work this way someday. It was so obvious once you saw it. It didn't require tremendous intellect. It was so clear.
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.
The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
User interface is customer service for the computer.
Computer science departments have always considered 'user interface' research to be sissy work.
I don't want to use my creative energy on somebody else's user interface.
Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.
Women have their own strengths, like fashion. In technology, we can contribute in a big way in terms of the design of the user interface.
I’d like to create an integrated television set that is completely easy to use. It would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud. It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it.
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We want to continue to explore new possibilities regarding interface and interaction. We experiment different solutions to make interface an important component for immersion rather than just a remote control.
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To the user, the interface is the product.
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