Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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 is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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