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Girls enjoy complex social interaction. Their verbal skills - and their delight in using them - develop earlier than boys'.
~ Brenda Laurel
Boy
Complex
Delight
Develop
Earlier
Enjoy
Girl
Interaction
Skills
Social
Social Interaction
Than
Them
Using
Verbal
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I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
~ Brenda Laurel
Actually
Anything
Been
Being
Blow
Break
Computers
Construct
Elaborate
Extreme
How
I Can
Like
Looking
Me
Mental
Model
Part
Pay
People
Quite
Software
Something
Something People
Sort
Trying
Unable
Understand
Up
Will
Without
Wonderful
Working
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I fervently believe in research as a necessity for good design, and I teach it that way.
~ Brenda Laurel
Believe
Design
Good
Necessity
Research
Teach
Way
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I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.
~ Brenda Laurel
Basically
Because
Been
Best
Business
Computer
Down
Down The Road
Driving
Early
Equal
Example
Five
Game
Has-Been
Imagination
Learned
Listening
Minutes
Partying
Play
Radio
Realize
Road
Seen
Senses
Suddenly
Visual
You
Your
design
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I think interactive television is doomed. It's a dead end.
~ Brenda Laurel
Dead
Dead End
Doomed
End
I Think
Interactive
Television
Think
design
copy
Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.
~ Brenda Laurel
Always
Been
Human
Human Imagination
Imagination
Reality
Small
Too
Transcend
Trying
design
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The airplane I usually fly has 450 horse power, and it's all made out of carbon fibre - you can't break it; your body will break before the airplane does.
~ Brenda Laurel
Airplane
Before
Body
Break
Carbon
Does
Fly
Horse
Made
Out
Power
Will
You
Your
Your Body
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copy
The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
~ Brenda Laurel
1960s
1970s
Absolutely
Business
Computer
Demographic
Did
Early
Fairly
Formed
Game
Girl
Industry
Late
Lucrative
Men
Most
Programs
Quickly
Very
Well
Were
Women
Work
Worked
Written
Young
Young Men
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When I got started, I was a sideshow. At my first Consumer Electronics Show, in 1977 in Chicago, people came from all over the floor to see the 'lady programmer.' They had me dressed in a turquoise lab coat with my name embroidered on the pocket.
~ Brenda Laurel
Came
Chicago
Coat
Consumer
Dressed
Electronics
First
Floor
Got
Had
Lab
Lady
Me
Name
Over
People
Pocket
Programmer
See
Show
Started
Turquoise
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copy
When you work with web design companies in San Francisco, you end up with a bunch of twenty-somethings who have their own cultural peculiarities, including obscurity for its own sake. You give those guys a website for a banking institution and they screw it up, because they are designing for themselves.
~ Brenda Laurel
Banking
Because
Bunch
Companies
Cultural
Design
Designing
End
Francisco
Give
Guys
Including
Institution
Obscurity
Own
Sake
San
San Francisco
Screw
Themselves
Those
Up
Web
Website
Who
Work
You
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