We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
ALAN COOPERMy computer’s memory stores a million phone numbers with perfect accuracy, but I have to stop and think to recall my own.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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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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Form follows function straight to hell.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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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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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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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