It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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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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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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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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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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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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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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