Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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 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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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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.
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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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