My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPERForm follows function straight to hell.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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 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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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