We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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