Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPERComputers 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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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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