Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPEREnglish bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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 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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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