If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERKeep 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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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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Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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