Quotes from book

The Humane Interface

“An interface is humane if it is responsive to human needs and considerate of human frailties.”

“The system should treat all user input as sacred.”

“If I am correct, the use of a product based on modelessness and monoty would soon become so habitual as to be nearly addictive, leading to a user population devoted to and loyal to the product.”

“An unlimited-length file name is a file. The content of a file is its own best name.”

“A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.”

“As far as the customer is concerned, the interface is the product.”

“When you have to choose among methods, your locus of attention is drawn from the task and temporarily becomes the decision itself.”

“Once the product's task is known, design the interface first; then implement to the interface design.”

“A computer shall not waste your time or require you to do more work than is strictly necessary.”