There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERThe things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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 don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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