There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERDefine what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
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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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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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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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While making art you should just do what is in your heart.
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When I was a teenager, that was when I fell in love with music. It affected me in a deep way. That’s why I love having teenagers at our shows.
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Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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