A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERIf you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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