If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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