There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERYou can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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.
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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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