There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERComputer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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