Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
ALAN COOPERIt 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 a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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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’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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