In turn, we will be tempted to kill our computers, but we won’t dare because we are already utterly, irreversibly dependent on these hopeful monsters that make modern life possible.
ALAN COOPERIt’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.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do 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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We don’t fight about music. We don’t fight about artistic direction.
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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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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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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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If you are not going to produce albums then you are not going to produce new fans. It’s impossible.
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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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Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
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