To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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