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.
ALAN COOPERJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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