Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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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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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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 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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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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