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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.

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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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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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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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