There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERThere is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERThere’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERIn 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.
ALAN COOPERAnd 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.
ALAN COOPEROne of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPERTouring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
ALAN COOPERIf you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPERIf you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
ALAN COOPERAs these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPEREnglish bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
ALAN COOPERJust how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
ALAN COOPERIf we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPERMy computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
ALAN COOPERYou Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPERUsability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPERIronically, 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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