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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. Typography should not vary widely in an interface.

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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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We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that.

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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair. 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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

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There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It's impossible. I'm a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible, 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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is 'on paper.'

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You Don't Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!

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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. 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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us. 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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Form follows function straight to hell.

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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. 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. My computer's memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.

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It's harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.

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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.

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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. I'm an 'evolve or die' kind of a musician. I think it's cool to try new things.

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