Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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