You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERRun for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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