It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
ALAN COOPERMen do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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 is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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