If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPERWe don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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