Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERMy 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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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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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