My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPERTypography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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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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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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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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