http://www.interaction-design.org/quote/ Technology Quote of the Day. News feed from Interaction-Design.org featuring a daily qoute related to Interaction Design, HCI, Usability or related disciplines en It is pointless – perhaps even damaging – to conduct usability tests merely because testing is fashionable or required by management. ... If designers do not have the time, energy, or authority to make changes, or if they are too deeply attached to their design to be willing to change it, there is no point in asking customers what they want. -- Laura De Young, in Bringing Design to Software, edited by Terry Winograd, 1996 http://www.interaction-design.org/quote/ No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it. -- Alan Cooper http://www.interaction-design.org/quote/ And let it be noted that there is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to set up as the leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for his enemies all those who are well off under the existing order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new. -- Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (trans. N. H. Thomson), Dover Publications, New York, 1992, page 13 http://www.interaction-design.org/quote/