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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 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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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