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.
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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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 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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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