While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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