Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPERI’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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