Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERIt’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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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