Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPERThe things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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