Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPERIn 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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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 has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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