It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
ALAN COOPERWhen 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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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