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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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Amazing Bring Fan Hold Keep Seem Teenager
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Could Fight Lucky Pretty Really Thing
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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Before Define Design Product
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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Behave Computer Human Less Like Rock Mind People Treat Tree Unconsciously
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Beautiful Better Cool Interface Less Matter
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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Behave Design Generous Helpful Likeable Person Respect Software User
A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Early Interface Magic Powerful Pretend Scenario Stage Tool
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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Computer Human Imagine Memory Simply Something True
In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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Computer Dependent Hopeful Irreversible Kill Life Modern Monster Possible

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