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.
ALAN COOPERIn other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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 you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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