English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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