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If you're more susceptible to interruption, you do more out of the box thinking.

Donald A. Norman

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User experience is really the whole totality. Opening the package good example. It's the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things.
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Good design is also an act of communication between the designer and the user, except that all the communication has to come about by the appearance of the device itself. The device must explain itself.
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The world is complex, and so too must be the activities that we perform. But that doesn't mean that we must live in continual frustration. No. The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable.
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So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
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Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
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When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.
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Attractive things work better When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does.
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AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them
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The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
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The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.
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I'm not a fan of technology . I'm a fan of pedagogy, of understanding how people learn and the most effective learning methods. But technology enables some exciting changes.
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Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence.
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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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If people keep buying poorly designed products, manufacturers and designers will think they are doing the right thing and continue as usual.
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Behavioral design is all about feeling in control. Includes: usability, understanding, but also the feel.
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In design it is important to shoe the effect of an action. ... Feedback is critical.
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To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.
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I prefer design by experts - by people who know what they are doing
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It is not enough that we build products that function, that are understandable and usable, we also need to build products that bring joy and excitement, pleasure and fun, and, yes, beauty to people's lives.
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Attractive things work better.
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