black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Related Topics

Beautiful Better Cool Interface Less Matter

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful.
ALAN COOPER

Behave Design Generous Helpful Likeable Person Respect Software User
Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
ALAN COOPER

Computer Human Imagine Memory Simply Something True
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPER

Before Define Design Product
There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPER

Against Common Logic One Only Pure Sense Thing
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.
ALAN COOPER

Affect Dep Fell Love Music Show Teenager Way
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.
ALAN COOPER

Balance Color Contour Contrast Form General Geometric High Interface Keep Minimal Palette Restrict Should Simple
Well madam, have you looked in the mirror and seen the state of your nose? Boxing is my excuse. What’s yours?
ALAN COOPER

Boxing Excuse Look Madam Mirror Nose Seen State Well
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.
ALAN COOPER

Around Branch Foster Memory Scene Silver Sprung Tendril Until Vine Young
You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
ALAN COOPER

Exhaust Go Home Work
There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPER

Between Complicate Confuse Difference Fun Little Powerful Product Program Simple Technical
One of the most heinous, insidious lies is the notion that you have to be an asshole to be a successful business person.
ALAN COOPER

Asshole Business Heinous Insidious Lie Most Notion Person Successful
If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
ALAN COOPER

Amount Chair Make Sandpaper Smoother Table Turn
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.
ALAN COOPER

Alien Computer Facemfriend Human Manner Memory Own Recognize Work
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER

Interfere Typography Vary Widely
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPER

Chair Like Method Sandpaper Usability
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER

Back Break Design Last Principle Thing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes