Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPERComputers 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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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