There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPER