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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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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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Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
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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Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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Break Need Next One Out Put Record Tour Work
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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Back Break Design Last Principle Thing
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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Amazing Bring Fan Hold Keep Seem Teenager
Form follows function straight to hell.
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Follow Function Hell Straight
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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Development Dollar Flaw Harder Job might Million Process Software Squander Suit Think Tool
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Before Define Design Product
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Another Club Dinner Except Geet Men One Perhaps Rugby
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Exhaust Go Home Work
A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Early Interface Magic Powerful Pretend Scenario Stage Tool
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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Being Human Interact Object React Sentiment Soon Sufficient
It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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Discipline Example Geat Giant Other Scientific Shoulder Stand
While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Do Heart Just Make
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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Different Experiment Just Keep Kind Like Make Music Over Record Same Want
I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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Cool Die Evolve Kind Musician New Thing Try

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