If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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 an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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.
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