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.
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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