If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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