A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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