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.
ALAN COOPERA powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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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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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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