There’s only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that’s common sense.
ALAN COOPERTo our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
More Alan Cooper Quotes
-
-
Typography should not vary widely in an interface.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.
ALAN COOPER -
As these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
ALAN COOPER -
Usability methods are like sandpapering a chair.
ALAN COOPER -
There is little difference technically between a complicated, confusing program and a simple, fun, and powerful product.
ALAN COOPER -
The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
ALAN COOPER -
Men do not greet one another like this … except perhaps at rugby club dinners.
ALAN COOPER -
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
ALAN COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
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 COOPER -
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.
ALAN COOPER -
Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
ALAN COOPER -
Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again,
ALAN COOPER