There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPERIf 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.
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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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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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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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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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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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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of 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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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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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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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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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My computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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