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.
ALAN COOPERWell 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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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