A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERIt has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do 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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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