There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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 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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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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