A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERMen do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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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 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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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