Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPERPast dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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