Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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