English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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