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.
ALAN COOPERTypography should not vary widely in an interface.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Computer memories work in a manner alien to human memories. My memory lets me recognize the faces of my friends, whereas my own computer never even recognizes me.
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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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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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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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