Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPERWe don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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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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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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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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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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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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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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If you are making a chair, the sandpaper can make it smoother. But no amount of sandpaper will turn a chair into a table.
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Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
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You Don’t Have to Go Home from Work Exhausted!
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There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
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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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