We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERIt has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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 other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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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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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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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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