While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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