Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPERTo 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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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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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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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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