My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPER
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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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