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.
ALAN COOPERDesign principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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