There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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To scenes by memory’s silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho’ it sprung From one united heart.
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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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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.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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