Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPERIf you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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