“These interfaces create an intuitive information landscape – the user moves ‘further away’ to get an overview, or “closer” for more detail, while keeping a sense of orientation and structure that traditional ‘pop-up’ windows and dialogues can’t match.” (NYU Media Research Lab)

“But once you have learned THE, you will wish that all your software had at least some of its interface features. This we guarantee; it happens every time.” (Jef Raskin – SourceForge Humane)

“(…) always be on the lookout for the unexpected.” (Frank Long – frontend.com Usability InfoCentre)

“The GUI of certain operating systems seems to be determined not so much by general usability standards but by understanding the quirks and desires of its users.” (Elizabeth Milard – NewsFactor)

“We are constantly adding new content and features to the new CHIplace (…)” (contact CHIplace)

“Explore annotated photos of CHI conferences and related events from the beginning of SIGCHI through today.” (ACM SIGCHI)

“Today’s children will be the adult computer users of tomorrow and their interactions with computers today will shape their future relationship with technology.” (Kori Inkpen et al. – The University of British Columbia)

“(…) good design always involves a process of compromise.” (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign)

“(…) we derive a design space to compare existing browser interfaces and to specify new interface ideas in a more systematic way.” (Hyowon Lee and Alan F. Smeaton – Journal of Digital Information 2.4)

“This document describes what you need to do to design your application for Aqua, the Mac OS X user interface.” (Apple Developer Connection)

“Does knowledge become simply information when cultural techniques turn technological?” (Wolfgang Ernst – The Digital Cultures Project Conference 2002)

“Keep productivity and usability the #1 goal of software design.” (Jared White – The Idea Basket)

“Experience video, audio, pictures, and TV through a convenient, flexible user interface that makes it easier than ever to enjoy your digital media.” (Microsoft)

“The purpose of the principles is to maximize the learning effectiveness of multimedia applications.” (Lawrence J. Najjar – Georgia Tech Research Institute)

“An ‘intelligent system’ does not necessarily have an intelligent interface, and neither is a well-designed interface necessarily intelligent.” (Annika Wern 1997)

“With big labs disappearing, the future of HCI research is in jeopardy.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)

ASIST 2001 plenary debate between Ben Shneiderman and James Hendler (Steve Hardin – ASIST Bulletin 28.3)

“(…) authoritative information on the theory behind the Macintosh ‘look-and-feel’ and the practice of using individual interface components.” (Apple Computer)

“(…) the IUI model suggests how to make software applications simpler by breaking features into screens or pages that are easy to explain and understand.”
(Microsoft Developers Network) – courtesy of ziya oz

“(…) a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design.”
(Group for User Interface Research – Berkeley University)