In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
ALAN COOPERAnd as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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