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.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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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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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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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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