Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERYou can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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 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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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