English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPERTo 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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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