Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
ALAN COOPERIt has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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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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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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If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
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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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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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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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Touring hard and then working on putting the next one out. I don’t need to break. I just need to put a record out.
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