Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERI 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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And as soon as any object exhibits sufficient cognitive function, those instincts kick in and we react as though we were interacting with another sentient human being.
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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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