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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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Go to the bookstore and look at how many bookshelves are filled with books trying to explain how to work the devices. We don't see shelves of books on how to use television sets, telephones, refrigerators or washing machines. Why should we for computer-based applications?
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Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
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Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability - they should go hand in hand.
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Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating.
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Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
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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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In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone.
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How do you discover a need that nobody yet knows about? This is where the product breakthroughs come through.
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I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function
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It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people. It is not our duty to understand the arbitrary, meaningless dictates of machines.
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Innocence lost is not easily regained. The designer simply cannot predict the problems people will have, the misinterpretations that will arise, and the errors that will get made.
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The hardest part of design ... is keeping features out.
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Forget the complaints against complexity instead, complain about confusion.
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So what does a good teacher do? Create tension - but just the right amount.
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If you think the products don't match what you want from a product, don't buy it.
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