In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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