My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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 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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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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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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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