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“Those smarts would be crucial. “People thought that the keyboard we delivered wasn’t sophisticated, but in reality it was super-sophisticated,” Williamson says. “Because the touch region of each key was smaller than the minimum hit size. We had to write a bunch of predictive algorithms technology to think about the words you could possibly be typing, artificially increase the hit area of the next few keys that would correspond to”
― The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
― The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone
“Finally, people have to actually purchase it. It doesn’t matter how good a product is if, in the end, nobody uses it.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“day a product development process starts, it is behind schedule and above budget.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“The vicious cycle starts: if you fail at something, you think it is your fault. Therefore you think you can’t do that task. As a result, next time you have to do the task, you believe you can’t, so you don’t even try. The result is that you can’t, just as you thought.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
“A story tells of Henry Ford’s buying scrapped Ford cars and having his engineers disassemble them to see which parts failed and which were still in good shape. Engineers assumed this was done to find the weak parts and make them stronger. Nope. Ford explained that he wanted to find the parts that were still in good shape. The company could save money if they redesigned these parts to fail at the same time as the others.”
― The Design of Everyday Things
― The Design of Everyday Things
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