Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERPast dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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