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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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