Quotes on UX Design

A thread on Quora is accumulating notable quotations about design & user experience.  These are some of the ones I don’t want to lose track of:

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
— Hans Hofmann

Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all.
— Douglas Martin, 1989

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
— Jef Raskin

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
— Buckminster Fuller, the chemical scientist

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.
— Frank Lloyd Wright

Users spend 99% of their time on other sites.
— Jakob Nielsen

Here are some of the collections referenced in the thread:

• Luke Wrobleski’s Interface Design Quotes
• 2ia User Experience Quotes
• UX Quotes
• Paul Rand: Designer’s Words
• Usability Maxims
• Pithy Design Quotes

See also

1. Notes from The ROI of UX: Proving the Value of User Experience Design
2. Design Pattern Libraries
3. The ROI of UX: Proving the Value of User Experience Design