It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
ALAN COOPERI’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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