No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
ALAN COOPERWe seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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 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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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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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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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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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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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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 also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.
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English bohemians sit in cold orderly rows, like carrots.
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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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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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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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