As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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