It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPERTo 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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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