Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPERIt’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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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