Form follows function straight to hell.
ALAN COOPERNo matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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