No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPERI’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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 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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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