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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More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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It’s harder than you might think to squander millions of dollars, but a flawed software development process is a tool well suited to the job.
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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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I’m an ‘evolve or die’ kind of a musician. I think it’s cool to try new things.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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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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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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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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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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Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
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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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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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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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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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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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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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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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