If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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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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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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 Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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