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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?

Alan Cooper

Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Answer Design Excellent Just Paper Prototype Question Short
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
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 Critical Deeper Human Interact Interface Longer More Sturdily Subtle Survival
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Another Club Dinner Except Geet Men One Perhaps Rugby
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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Discipline Example Geat Giant Other Scientific Shoulder Stand
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Chair Like Method Sandpaper Usability
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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Computer Invade Life Live Run
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
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
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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Break Need Next One Out Put Record Tour Work
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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Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
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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Annoy Corner Even Every Few Infuriate Kill Live Machine
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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Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
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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Box Designer Goal Help Magical Person Power Simply Think Useful
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Cool Die Evolve Kind Musician New Thing Try
You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Book Nothing Out Religion Spiritual Story Thing

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