The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPERAs these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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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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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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