You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERIt has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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