I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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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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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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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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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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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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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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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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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