Users Do Not Care About What Is

Imagine If Every Thursday Your Shoes Exploded If You Tied Them The Usual Way. This Happens To Us All The Time With Computers, And Nobody Thinks Of Complaining.

I Am Only A Footnote, But Proud Of The Footnote I Have Become. My Subsequent Work On Eliciting Principles And Developing The Theory Of Interface Design, So That Many People Will Be Able To Do What I Did Is Probably Also Footnote-worthy. In Looking Back At This Turn-of-the-century Period, The Rise Of A Worldwide Network Will Be Seen As The Most Significant Part Of The Computer Revolution.

A Well-designed And Humane Interface Does Not Have To Be Split Into Beginner And Expert Subsystems.

A Computer Shall Not Waste Your Time Or Require You To Do More Work Than Is Strictly Necessary.

Once The Product's Task Is Known, Design The Interface First; Then Implement To The Interface Design.