Aza Raskin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To the user, the interface is the product.
-- Aza Raskin

#Interfaces #Users
When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your solution helps you learn faster. Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again. If the problem you are trying to solve involves creating a magnum opus, you are solving the wrong problem.
-- Aza Raskin

#Creating #Trying #Way
When I'm hiring, I don't look for credentials, I look for knowledge.
-- Aza Raskin

#Inspirational #Looks #Credentials
Design is the beauty of turning constraints into advantages.
-- Aza Raskin

#Design #Advantage #Constraints
Every time you make the user make a decision they donâ€™t care about, you have failed as a designer.
-- Aza Raskin

#Decision #Care #Designer
Find a faster way to fail, recover, and try again.
-- Aza Raskin

#Trying #Way #Failing
You can never let your data dictate design. If you do, you end up following what people currently do and never innovating.
-- Aza Raskin

#Data #People #Design
Your first try will be wrong. Budget and design for it.
-- Aza Raskin

#Design #Trying #Firsts
Never use a warning when you mean undo.
-- Aza Raskin

#Mean #Use #Warning

As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.
Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.
I came up almost completely through the subsidised theatre. I have never been absolutely at the market interface, where I've got to sell my wares or die - I've always been protected from that.
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
InherÂent qualÂity is part of absolute qualÂity and withÂout it things will appear shoddy. The users may not know why, but they always senseÂ it.
Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.
The system should always keep users informed about what is going on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
Content is often the reason users come to your site.
The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.
The least flexible component of any system is the user.

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