In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
ALAN COOPERJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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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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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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