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 COOPERI’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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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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