Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPEROne 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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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 don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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