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.
ALAN COOPERWhile making art you should just do what is in your heart.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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