English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPERIf your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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