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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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