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.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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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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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Computers no longer interface with humans–they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Ironically, the thing that will likely make the least improvement in the ease of use of software-based products is new technology.
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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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